{"id":6407,"date":"2019-12-23T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T20:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/23\/glorious-books\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T20:42:14","slug":"glorious-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/23\/glorious-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Glorious Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While visiting my parents, I idly mentioned to my dad that I was looking for a good book on Southeast Asian mythology. With a gleam in his eye, he motioned for me to follow him down to the basement library (one of at least two rooms that could be called libraries in this house). Three minutes later I had this stack balanced under my chin:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6406\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6406\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_1298-scaled.jpg?resize=474%2C632&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_1298-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_1298-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_1298-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_1298-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_1298-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_1298-scaled.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_1298-scaled.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Should be able to zip through these in the next four days&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While visiting my parents, I idly mentioned to my dad that I was looking for a good book on Southeast Asian mythology. With a gleam in his eye, he motioned for me to follow him down to the basement library (one of at least two rooms that could be called libraries in this house). Three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/23\/glorious-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glorious Books<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[50,29,51],"class_list":["post-6407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew","tag-books","tag-grandpa-stape","tag-pictures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}