{"id":2253,"date":"2014-04-01T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2014-04-01T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T16:24:04","slug":"reading-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2253","title":{"rendered":"reading experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In follow-up to a recent blog <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/ryan-holiday\/2013\/09\/how-to-keep-a-library-of-physical-books\">post<\/a> shared to me by my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/theexceptioncatcher.com\/blog\">Steven<\/a>, thinking about my aunt&#8217;s old practices, and comments from my <a href=\"http:\/\/ladybugwife.blogspot.com\">wife<\/a> and another friend, I&#8217;m engaging in a &#8220;consumptive&#8221;\/&#8221;reactive&#8221; reading experiment wherein I am going to do something I haven&#8217;t done in a non-workbook book since my time at <a href=\"http:\/\/hvcc.edu\">HVCC<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m going to try\u00a0<em>writing<\/em> in a book.<\/p>\n<p>Two, actually. One is {{To Engineer Is Human}} (by {{Henry Petroski}}; my <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2014\/01\/22\/to-engineer-is-human-by-henry-petroski\/#.UzoHUq1dUrY\">review<\/a>). The second is {{Knowing God}} by {{JI Packer}}.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck. I&#8217;ll report back when I&#8217;ve completed at least one of the books in the experiment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Books are made to be broken\u2013literally or figuratively. I recently bought a 80+ year old book for $76 (a rare book called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/If_It_Had_Happened_Otherwise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">If It Had Happened Otherwise<\/a>). I took special pleasure folding the pages and writing on them. It&#8217;s mine, why treat it like a delicate flower?&#8221; &#8211;Ryan Holiday<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In follow-up to a recent blog post shared to me by my friend Steven, thinking about my aunt&#8217;s old practices, and comments from my wife and another friend, I&#8217;m engaging in a &#8220;consumptive&#8221;\/&#8221;reactive&#8221; reading experiment wherein I am going to do something I haven&#8217;t done in a non-workbook book since my time at HVCC &#8211; &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2253\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">reading experiment<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,14,31],"tags":[148,299,619,861],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-firsts","category-personal","tag-books","tag-experiment","tag-reading","tag-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}