{"id":3079,"date":"2016-11-15T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2016-11-15T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:37:16","slug":"the-biblioholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2016\/11\/15\/the-biblioholic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biblioholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/files\/2016\/11\/Biblioholic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3077\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/files\/2016\/11\/Biblioholic.jpg\" alt=\"biblioholic\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/files\/2016\/11\/Biblioholic.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/files\/2016\/11\/Biblioholic-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/files\/2016\/11\/Biblioholic-768x479.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">During my adult life, it has been a rare week when I didn&#8217;t visit at least a couple of used book stores. I suffer from Biblioholism: n. [BIBLIO + HOLISM] book, of books: the habitual longing to purchase, read, store, admire and consume books in excess. I have always been steadfast in resisting treatment for my passion.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">Since July, I have been so consumed by illness that I have not even thought of a used bookstore. On Saturday the old urge was upon me. While it was exhausting, I ventured out for a couple of hours. Immersion in that sacred space lifted the fog and fatigue a bit. I bought volumes on Hume and Arendt and came home and read some Chekhov.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">I concur with Samuel Beckett: \u201cI can\u2019t go on. I\u2019ll go on.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my adult life, it has been a rare week when I didn&#8217;t visit at least a couple of used book stores. I suffer from Biblioholism: n. [BIBLIO + HOLISM] book, of books: the habitual longing to purchase, read, store, admire and consume books in excess. I have always been steadfast in resisting treatment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3080,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}