{"id":88,"date":"2005-12-29T19:43:33","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T19:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2010-05-08T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:44:07","slug":"history-of-the-bookshelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/history-of-the-bookshelf\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #663300;\">Only a die-hard  bibliophile would own a book with a title like <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=mjtate-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0913559407%2Fqid%3D1135920724%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155\"><span style=\"color: #3333ff;\">A Brief Illustrated History of the Bookshelf <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #663300;\">What fun to see the many ways that bibliophiles  through the ages have stored their treasures!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #663300;\">Here are a couple of my favorite quotes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #663300;\">I have heard people complain innumerable  times that they have no space for books, therefore they cannot afford to  buy another to read. I have always concluded that these people must not  be totally serious about books.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #663300;\">and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #663300;\"><em>With floor-to-ceiling shelves, you do run  several risks, though. One is that people often think that you are  unusually intelligent<\/em><strong>\u2014<\/strong><em>or trying to look it<\/em><strong>\u2014<\/strong><em>when  all that you really are is pathologically enthusiastic about nine or  ten apparently unconnected topics.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #663300;\">This guy is clearly a kindred spirit!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #663300;\">Mary Jo Tate<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a die-hard bibliophile would own a book with a title like A Brief Illustrated History of the Bookshelf What fun to see the many ways that bibliophiles through the ages have stored their treasures! Here are a couple of my favorite quotes: I have heard people complain innumerable times that they have no space &#8230; <a title=\"History of the Bookshelf\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/history-of-the-bookshelf\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about History of the Bookshelf\">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-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}