{"id":81,"date":"2005-01-31T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2005\/01\/books\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T23:58:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:28:30","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2005\/01\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just blogged two weeks ago about the <a href=\"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2005\/01\/i-have-the-best-friends\">new book<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alltheprettywords.com\">Rebecca<\/a> sent me. Well, I&#8217;m about 200 or so pages into that book and still enjoying it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that doesn&#8217;t stop me from buying more books! The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strandbookstall.com\">Strand Book Stall<\/a> in Bombay has an annual sale on a large scale. The sale is being held in a large auditorium (boxes of unpacked books stacked on stage!) with books displayed on long tables that ran the length of the hall.<\/p>\n<p>My haul:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Simoquin Prophecies by Samit Basu<\/li>\n<li>Best New SF 15 (from 2001) edited by Gardener Dozois<\/li>\n<li>A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (paperback) and<\/li>\n<li>The Ancestor&#8217;s Tale by Richard Dawkins (illustrated ed.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>More later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just blogged two weeks ago about the new book Rebecca sent me. Well, I&#8217;m about 200 or so pages into that book and still enjoying it. Of course, that doesn&#8217;t stop me from buying more books! The Strand Book Stall in Bombay has an annual sale on a large scale. The sale is being&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2005\/01\/books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Books!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}