{"id":712,"date":"2004-05-03T04:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2004-05-03T04:43:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-03T04:43:00","slug":"712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>BIBLIOMANIA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I calmly walked into Border&#8217;s with Mrs. Zenpundit with the intention of buying a new road atlas and I left with copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-form\/ref=s_sf_b_as\/103-3303983-2541445\">Zen &#038; the Way of the Sword <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0195090616\/qid=1083604323\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-3303983-2541445?v=glance&#038;s=books\">Islam and the West<\/a>&#8230;only after forcing myself to put down the Richard Clarke memoir and a book on &#8221; great vehicle &#8221; Buddhism. This is ridiculous ! I&#8217;m still reading the Burleigh book and I have at least ten other books in my &#8221; read pile&#8221; gathering dust on my nightstand ! <\/p>\n<p>As my reading time decreases, my purchases increase. Now I know how Jefferson felt though after surveying the boxes of books piled up in my basement  I think his collection was smaller.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-form\/ref=s_sf_b_as\/103-3303983-2541445\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIBLIOMANIA This weekend I calmly walked into Border&#8217;s with Mrs. Zenpundit with the intention of buying a new road atlas and I left with copies of Zen &#038; the Way of the Sword and Islam and the West&#8230;only after forcing myself to put down the Richard Clarke memoir and a book on &#8221; great vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}