{"id":44,"date":"2008-03-27T17:37:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T01:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostlynf.wordpress.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2008-03-27T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T01:37:25","slug":"old-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Old books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scampion\/2330513986\/\" title=\"Old books by scampion, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2001\/2330513986_de3a25f326_m.jpg\" alt=\"Old books\" align=\"right\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The overwhelming majority of the books I read are new.\u00a0 Many are freshly published clothbound or paperback books with new book smell.\u00a0 Most are fewer than five years old.\u00a0 But older books still warm my heart.\u00a0 I love the look and feel and character of tomes older than me.<\/p>\n<p>I recently looked up something in the books pictured here.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a 1907 four-volume history that I&#8217;ve owned for about 15 years.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t used them much.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice just knowing they&#8217;re there.\u00a0 But when I called upon them this month, I couldn&#8217;t help given them a thorough fondling.\u00a0 They weren&#8217;t masterpieces of publishing, to be sure.\u00a0 The binding is flaking apart and paper dust floats in the air with nearly every page turn.\u00a0 That didn&#8217;t ruin the moment, though.\u00a0 Just lightly handling the rough-cut pages was enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be reading a 2008 book again tonight, but old books still have a magical pull on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overwhelming majority of the books I read are new.\u00a0 Many are freshly published clothbound or paperback books with new book smell.\u00a0 Most are fewer than five years old.\u00a0 But older books still warm my heart.\u00a0 I love the look &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/?p=44\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[54,64,166],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sidebar","tag-bibliomania","tag-books","tag-old-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevecampion.com\/MostlyNF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}