{"id":2472,"date":"2023-09-06T11:35:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T15:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2023-09-06T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T15:35:44","slug":"go-read-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"Go Read a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am feeling quite unmotivated this morning. I taught last evening and enjoyed learning and laughing with my students, but I am too wound up to go right to bed when I get home. Add in an exciting tennis match and I was up way past my bedtime. <\/p>\n\n\n

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I had an extra latte this morning, poked a bit at the to do list, and then while surfing social media, discovered to my happy surprise that it is National Read a Book Day! I couldn’t find any history other than it started in the 2000s and is similar to Book Lover’s Day, which is an “unofficial” holiday but at least has a Wikipedia entry<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Read a Book Day must be a bit more unofficial but nonetheless, a national holiday is a national holiday and must be observed. I have brewed a pot of teach and will be curling up with a good book: The Murmur of Bees<\/em> by Sof\u00eda Segovia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am feeling quite unmotivated this morning. I taught last evening and enjoyed learning and laughing with my students, but I am too wound up to go right to bed when I get home. Add in an exciting tennis match and I was up way past my bedtime. I had an extra latte this morning, … Continue reading Go Read a Book<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[74,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-DS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}