{"id":219,"date":"2005-07-29T20:37:02","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T20:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:37:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:37:27","slug":"what-your-bookshelves-say-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/what-your-bookshelves-say-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Your Bookshelves Say About You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The first thing, naturally, when one enters a  scholar&#8217;s study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion  very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance  round his bookshelves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., <em>The Poet at  the Breakfast-Table<\/em> (1872)<\/p>\n<p>I have noticed that when I enter a person&#8217;s home  for the first time, I naturally peruse her bookshelves.\u00a0 If there are  no bookshelves to peruse, or if the shelves are filled primarily with  knick-knacks, I wonder about her&#8230;especially if it&#8217;s a homeschooling  family!\u00a0 A home overflowing with books is often a dead giveaway that  homeschoolers live there.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing, naturally, when one enters a scholar&#8217;s study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his bookshelves. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (1872) I have noticed that when &#8230; <a title=\"What Your Bookshelves Say About You\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/what-your-bookshelves-say-about-you\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What Your Bookshelves Say About You\">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-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}