{"id":129,"date":"2014-01-23T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2014-01-23T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T18:32:40","slug":"for-the-love-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"For the Love of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creative-cache.biz\/donnadrewsawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/our-book-shelf-10px-canvas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-133\" alt=\"Our Book Shelf 10px canvas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-cache.biz\/donnadrewsawyer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/our-book-shelf-10px-canvas.jpg?w=226\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/our-book-shelf-10px-canvas.jpg 490w, https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/our-book-shelf-10px-canvas-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Charles Blow&#8217;s New York Times column today, <a title=\"Charles Blow Reading Books is Fundamental\" href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1cX1LRx\">Reading Books Is Fundamental<\/a>, is every book lover&#8217;s story. If you are\u00a0lucky, then\u00a0you too have a favorite memory of the day you knew your love of\u00a0books\u00a0would last a lifetime.\u00a0My parents were journalists and avid readers. My husband&#8217;s parents were educators and rabid readers so in our family, books and the love of books, passed from generation to generation to generation.<\/p>\n<p>Our children knew that\u00a0their parents\u00a0might say no to a toy but\u00a0never\u00a0to a book and did they ever take advantage. Now that they are buying their own books, they still cannot resist the Siren call of a new volume.\u00a0In our family, books are the favorite gift to give and to receive.\u00a0We have long ago run out of space on our book shelves and our Kindles are jam-packed with virtual editions; but the pursuit and the sharing\u00a0of\u00a0knowledge and understanding\u00a0through the written word continues unabated. Thank goodness!<\/p>\n<p>Recently, my husband, Granville, and I started\u00a0a new relationship\u00a0with books, we are now\u00a0authors. Our\u00a0books make their debut\u00a0this year &#8211; his nonfiction and mine fiction. While not as much fun as reading a\u00a0good book by the fire, writing has its own satisfaction.\u00a0If we prove to be\u00a0as prolific\u00a0authors\u00a0as we are readers, this love affair with\u00a0books may finally be out of control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Blow&#8217;s New York Times column today, Reading Books Is Fundamental, is every book lover&#8217;s story. If you are\u00a0lucky, then\u00a0you too have a favorite memory of the day you knew your love of\u00a0books\u00a0would last a lifetime.\u00a0My parents were journalists and avid readers. My husband&#8217;s parents were educators and rabid readers so in our family, books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donnadrewsawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}