{"id":205,"date":"2005-07-27T20:33:33","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T20:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:34:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:34:01","slug":"books-under-the-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/books-under-the-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Books under the Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>There are many people<\/em>\u2014<em>happy people,  it usually appears<\/em>\u2014<em>whose thoughts at Christmas always turn to books.  The notion of a Christmas tree with no books under it is repugnant and  unnatural to them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~\u00a0Robertson Davies, <em>The Merry Heart<\/em> (1997)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Lisa B. for sharing this quote.<\/p>\n<p>Books under the Christmas tree\u2014and at every birthday\u2014are part of  the Tate family tradition!\u00a0 I like to give books to friends as  birthday, Christmas, and baby gifts as well.\u00a0 One of my favorite\u00a0things  to give a new baby is <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\/-\/0689823827\/qid=1122477973\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846\"><span style=\"color: #000066;\">A Child&#8217;s Garden of Verses<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mjtate-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> illustrated by Tasha Tudor.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many people\u2014happy people, it usually appears\u2014whose thoughts at Christmas always turn to books. The notion of a Christmas tree with no books under it is repugnant and unnatural to them. ~\u00a0Robertson Davies, The Merry Heart (1997) Thanks to Lisa B. for sharing this quote. Books under the Christmas tree\u2014and at every birthday\u2014are part &#8230; <a title=\"Books under the Christmas Tree\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/books-under-the-christmas-tree\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Books under the Christmas Tree\">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-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}