{"id":407,"date":"2010-03-12T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2015-07-31T12:12:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T16:12:33","slug":"day-21-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/day-21-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 21: Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Stuff-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-408\" title=\"Stuff-books\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Stuff-books-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We had 1,339 books in our house in the year 2000. I know this because our youngest child counted them. It was partly my attempt to give him a simple chore each day during summer vacation and partly curiosity. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s over 1,500 by now because we keep adding and seldom subtracting books. I confess that the picture of the bookcase today does not contain books I am giving away. That\u2019s a much bigger project than I\u2019m up to right now. I did note, however, that I have 13 Bibles. Does anyone need that many? Yes. For my writing I often check different translations plus some are children\u2019s Bibles. What I AM getting rid of, however, are catalogs. I threw away 10 outdated ones. One way to decrease clutter and paper is to reduce the number of unwanted catalogs coming into the home. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalogchoice.org\/\">www.catalogchoice.org<\/a> for help. When I feel braver, I&#8217;ll tackle the books.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/fewer-books\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+becomingminimalistcom+%28becomingminimalist.com%29\">How Giving Away 1,000 Books Made Me Love Reading Again<\/a> for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had 1,339 books in our house in the year 2000. I know this because our youngest child counted them. It was partly my attempt to give him a simple chore each day during summer vacation and partly curiosity. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s over 1,500 by now because we keep adding and seldom subtracting books. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40daysoflettinggo","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}