{"id":2,"date":"2010-04-25T14:12:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T14:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-12-02T12:39:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T12:39:40","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Hilary Caws-Elwitt. I live in Northampton, MA and I coordinate two monthly book groups for the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/forbeslibrary.org\">Forbes Library<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_great_books_salticid.com\">Great Books<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/salticid.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/forbes_nature_environment_salticid.com\">Nature and Environment<\/a>. I also attend the Irish Writers and Second Monday groups as often as I can, and I&#8217;m in a &#8220;slow read&#8221; weekly group at Amherst College. In other words, I really love to read and I especially love to talk about and think about what I&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Early 2004: I tried to review every book I read.<\/li>\n<li>Late 2004 &#8211; early 2011: I alternated review with catch-up lists, eventually slowing down until it was just a once in a while thing.<\/li>\n<li>After switching from Blogger to WordPress, I had a complicated multisite which died after an upgrade, and the blog went dark.<\/li>\n<li>In 2017 I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2017\/05\/a-reboot\/\">rebooted<\/a> it with lists I&#8217;d been keeping offline, covering 2016 on.<\/li>\n<li>Since 2018 I&#8217;ve been trying to write reviews just of books I read for book groups, because I use post-it flags to mark passages I want to remember. Mostly these quotes are accumulating in draft posts, but I do try to keep up with a monthly list of books (rated on Goodreads).<\/li>\n<li>I back-date my posts to when I actually completed the book(s).<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t have an audience, so I primarily write for myself (and for deep Google searches)<\/li>\n<li>But who knows how long this will last&#8230; every post could be the last one ever!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Hilary Caws-Elwitt. I live in Northampton, MA and I coordinate two monthly book groups for the wonderful Forbes Library: Great Books and Nature and Environment. I also attend the Irish Writers and Second Monday groups as often as I can, and I&#8217;m in a &#8220;slow read&#8221; weekly group at Amherst College. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}