{"id":159,"date":"2005-07-16T20:19:45","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T20:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:20:11","slug":"a-sweet-devouring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/a-sweet-devouring\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sweet Devouring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The pleasures of  reading itself<\/em><em>\u2014who doesn\u2019t remember?\u2014were like those of a  Christmas cake, a sweet devouring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Eudora Welty<\/p>\n<p>I found this quote from  Welty\u2019s \u201cA Sweet Devouring\u201d in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=mjtate-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0879239212\/qid=1121520092\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1?v=glance%26s=books\">The Open Door: When Writers First Learned to Read<\/a>, in which 29 writers recall their  discovery of books and reading.\u00a0\u00a0Writers include Benjamin Franklin,  Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Will Durant, Winston Churchill, A. A.  Milne, C. S. Lewis, and more.\u00a0 I need to put this back on my nightstand,  but I&#8217;m afraid the Leaning Tower of Tomes will topple&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Jo Tate<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pleasures of reading itself\u2014who doesn\u2019t remember?\u2014were like those of a Christmas cake, a sweet devouring. ~ Eudora Welty I found this quote from Welty\u2019s \u201cA Sweet Devouring\u201d in\u00a0The Open Door: When Writers First Learned to Read, in which 29 writers recall their discovery of books and reading.\u00a0\u00a0Writers include Benjamin Franklin, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, &#8230; <a title=\"A Sweet Devouring\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/a-sweet-devouring\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Sweet Devouring\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}