{"id":3304,"date":"2021-02-21T18:57:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2021-02-21T18:57:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:57:17","slug":"700-books-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3304","title":{"rendered":"700 Books (not really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChildrenOPride-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChildrenOPride-202x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChildrenOPride-202x300.jpeg 202w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChildrenOPride-691x1024.jpeg 691w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChildrenOPride-768x1138.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChildrenOPride-1036x1536.jpeg 1036w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChildrenOPride-1382x2048.jpeg 1382w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChildrenOPride-1568x2324.jpeg 1568w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ChildrenOPride-scaled.jpeg 1727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"prose\">As I have said many times before, when counting the number of books I have read since I started tracking in a foolish though somewhat satisfying project I&#8217;ve maintained since 2015, I do not include in my &#8216;official&#8217; count items classified (by me) as comics or graphic novels. This includes, by the way, books <strong>about<\/strong> comic books, such as Jules Feiffer&#8217;s <em>The Great Comic Book Heroes<\/em>, a tradeback which though it does contain many examples of comic book pages, also quite an interesting introduction and much history courtesy of the famous artist Mr. Feiffer. In any event, I do not wish to entirely ignore those books in my &#8216;count&#8217;, so I have a separate tracking number for <strong>every<\/strong> book that passes beneath my gaze. (<em>The Great Comic Book Heroes<\/em> is, for example, book #177 in that fuller, more expansive count.)<a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GreatComicBookHeroes.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GreatComicBookHeroes-220x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GreatComicBookHeroes-220x300.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GreatComicBookHeroes-750x1024.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GreatComicBookHeroes-768x1049.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GreatComicBookHeroes.jpeg 841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a> And by that reckoning\u2014but only by that reckoning\u2014I have just now read book #700, a rather lengthy and at time frankly boring book of Civil War letters of a south Georgian family entitled The Children Of Pride. I hope to write more about this overlong book (and this was the &#8216;Abridged Version&#8217;!), so won&#8217;t get into it here, but will now bid you adieu, until the next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have said many times before, when counting the number of books I have read since I started tracking in a foolish though somewhat satisfying project I&#8217;ve maintained since 2015, I do not include in my &#8216;official&#8217; count items classified (by me) as comics or graphic novels. This includes, by the way, books about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;700 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],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","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=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}