{"id":4958,"date":"2014-04-03T21:32:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T01:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2014-04-03T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T01:32:38","slug":"many-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=4958","title":{"rendered":"Many Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stack of books beside my chair tonight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4959\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/books040314.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/books040314-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"The Bookshelf\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/books040314-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/books040314-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/books040314.jpg 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bookshelf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A nice stack of books for a cold evening when winter refuses to yield to spring, and a pad and pen to take notes.<\/p>\n<p>Top background, &#8220;The Virtues of Ignorance.&#8221; A powerful group of essays on the limits of knowledge.  Underneath, Debbie&#8217;s &#8220;Bullfinch&#8217;s Mythology&#8221;  (speaking of hubris).<\/p>\n<p>Top foreground, &#8220;Dear Editor&#8221; by Amy Newman.  Haunting modern poetry, a gift from sister-in-law Kathy.  Then Virgil&#8217;s Georgics.  It&#8217;s just what I hear at modern farming conferences, except it was written in 29 BC.  And on the bottom &#8220;The Lover&#8217;s Dictionary.&#8221;  I got that for Debbie two years for Valentine&#8217;s Day.  Like most gifts, I got it because I thought it was cool.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, all of these were gifts. Thank you all.<\/p>\n<p>So many good things to read&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stack of books beside my chair tonight. A nice stack of books for a cold evening when winter refuses to yield to spring, and a pad and pen to take notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skunk-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}