{"id":77,"date":"2012-12-09T03:37:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-12-11T02:25:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T02:25:17","slug":"bibliophilia-bibliomania-and-allegedly-literate-ramblings-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Bibliophilia, Bibliomania, and allegedly literate ramblings&#8230;Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All my life I have loved books and reading. Now that I think of it I probably loved books before I could read. \u00a0In the beginning was\u00a0<em>The Word<\/em>, but in\u00a0<em>my<\/em>\u00a0earliest beginning there were the pictures, then the words. \u00a0This is an example of me rambling.<\/p>\n<p>Two nights ago, I reached a milestone in my life-long love of books. \u00a0I reached the half-way mark in my effort to read the entire\u00a0<em>Encyclopedia Britannica Concise Edition.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>All 2114 pages of it, one page a day. I started my encyclopedic journey on January 15, 2010. I usually read a page before I go to bed, so that would make it a page a night. Periodically, I read ahead enough so if I take a vacation where carting around a big, ten-pound hard cover book isn&#8217;t practical I can take some time off and not fall behind. I really lead an exciting life don&#8217;t I?!?!?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes it is exciting when you reach page 1057 after starting out almost three years ago! \u00a0 The journey has been a lot of fun and it has been a wonderful pleasure learning all kinds of interesting facts. When I started out my wife wouldn&#8217;t let me buy a complete set of the standard\u00a0<em>Encyclopedia Britannica<\/em>. Ironically, since I started reading both the standard and compact edition are out of print<\/p>\n<p>The projected end date of my journey is October 30, 2015.\u00a0I hope I make it. You never know.\u00a0 There\u2019s not enough time to elaborate on all the trivia, useless and otherwise, that I have learned along the way.\u00a0 But I can say that the range of human knowledge is indeed, <em>encyclopedic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0copyright 2012 Magnus Incognito<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All my life I have loved books and reading. Now that I think of it I probably loved books before I could read. \u00a0In the beginning was\u00a0The Word, but in\u00a0my\u00a0earliest beginning there were the pictures, then the words. \u00a0This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=77\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}