{"id":1328,"date":"2018-11-01T19:55:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T02:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2018-11-01T19:55:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T02:55:28","slug":"300-books-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"300 Books (Not Really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"prose\">Just finished the 300th book that I&#8217;ve read since I started tracking just which books I read and complete &#8212; though this number has the caveat that it includes comics and graphic novels, which I am not counting in my most strenuous accounting, as discussed in earlier posts <a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=764\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=764\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Reach4Tomorrow.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Reach4Tomorrow-635x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"512\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Reach4Tomorrow-635x1024.jpeg 635w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Reach4Tomorrow-186x300.jpeg 186w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Reach4Tomorrow-768x1239.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"prose\">The particular book read was Arthur C. Clarke&#8217;s short story collection <em>Reach For Tomorrow<\/em>. This book is also #260 in my count of books read when comic books are excluded. I began tracking books read on or about June 17, 2915 (shame on me from not noting the precise date when I first started this tracking project).<\/p>\n<p class=\"prose\">I&#8217;ll report back when I have achieved 300 books in the stricter sense. I expect that my pace will slow due to NaNoWrimo and holiday madness (though the latter will probably more affect my iTunes song listening habits, my other silly tracking project).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished the 300th book that I&#8217;ve read since I started tracking just which books I read and complete &#8212; though this number has the caveat that it includes comics and graphic novels, which I am not counting in my most strenuous accounting, as discussed in earlier posts here and here. The particular book read &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=1328\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;300 Books (Not Really)&#8221;<\/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":[83],"tags":[87,88],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-reading","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}