One blogger commented that she had difficulty adding me to her friends list because she had typed \u201celectric\u201d rather than \u201ceclectic.\u201d\u00a0 (Glad you eventually found me, and thanks so much for adding me to your friends!)<\/p>\n
I know I violated one of the cardinal rules of website naming:\u00a0 make it easy to remember and to spell!\u00a0 I did ponder the hazards of ignoring that rule, but I adore the word \u201ceclectic\u201d because it so accurately represents the nature of both my home library and my homeschooling style.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the definition of “eclectic” from Merriam-Webster Online (a fantastic resource, BTW):<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=eclectic<\/a><\/p>\n I do hope that this blog will be not only eclectic but also electric\u2014that it will spark energetic discussion of books and ideas.\u00a0 I welcome and appreciate your comments.<\/p>\n Mary Jo<\/p>\n Copyright 2005 by Mary Jo Tate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One blogger commented that she had difficulty adding me to her friends list because she had typed \u201celectric\u201d rather than \u201ceclectic.\u201d\u00a0 (Glad you eventually found me, and thanks so much for adding me to your friends!) I know I violated one of the cardinal rules of website naming:\u00a0 make it easy to remember and to … 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-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}