{"id":1982,"date":"2017-08-10T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T22:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2017-11-28T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T23:54:11","slug":"next-new-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=1982","title":{"rendered":"Next new thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read. I&#8217;ve been reading voraciously since I was a sproglette. My mum and dad used to enroll me in Library camp when I was a child. I&#8217;ve written\u00a0<a title=\"Letters combine to make words\" href=\"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=1197\">blog<\/a> <a title=\"shameless post thief\" href=\"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=703\">posts<\/a>\u00a0about how much I love to read. There&#8217;s a whole <a title=\"reading begets enlightenment\" href=\"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?cat=32\">category<\/a> of reading related goodies on this site dating from 2006-2009-ish. This content has been\u00a0sadly neglected in recent years I&#8217;m afraid.<\/p>\n<p>All this pre-amble to state that after a bazillion years of reading, I&#8217;ve started doing something I should have done\u00a0many years ago. Sure,\u00a0I&#8217;ve started writing reviews of things I&#8217;m reading again. More importantly,\u00a0I&#8217;m also sharing those reviews on Kobo, since that&#8217;s where I buy the bulk of my eBooks these days.<\/p>\n<p>My author friends are frequently reminding me that honest reviews &#8211; good and bad\u00a0&#8211; of their work mean more than all the &#8220;read me&#8221; advertising fluff pieces on FB, Twitter, or other social media channels. Here&#8217;s hoping they still feel that way after I&#8217;ve reviewed of a few of their books online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read. I&#8217;ve been reading voraciously since I was a sproglette. My mum and dad used to enroll me in Library camp when I was a child. I&#8217;ve written\u00a0blog posts\u00a0about how much I love to read. There&#8217;s a whole category of reading related goodies on this site dating from 2006-2009-ish. This content has been\u00a0sadly neglected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-begets-enlightenment","tag-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}