{"id":605,"date":"2018-05-31T23:27:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T03:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2023-10-21T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T15:17:44","slug":"may-2018-books-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/05\/may-2018-books-read\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2018 books read"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0 &#8211; J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955. I couldn&#8217;t make my way through this until having seen the first Peter Jackson movie, and, for one of the biggest classics in a genre I love, I&#8217;m not that fond of it still.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2020\/05\/the-soul-of-an-octopus-a-surprising-exploration-into-the-wonder-of-consciousness-sy-montgomery-2015\/\"><em>The Soul of An Octopus<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Sy Montgomery, 2015.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/05\/how-to-be-both-ali-smith-2014\/\"><em>How To Be Both<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Ali Smith, 2014.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/05\/play-it-as-it-lays-joan-didion-1970\/\"><em>Play it as it Lays<\/em><\/a> &#8211; Joan Didion, 1970.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dragonsinger<\/em> &#8211; Anne McCaffrey, 1977 &#8211; Still one of my favorite re-reads!<\/li>\n<li><em>Why Buddhism is True<\/em> &#8211; Robert Wright, 2017 &#8211; Great and prompted me to try a meditation practice again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord of the Rings\u00a0 &#8211; J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955. I couldn&#8217;t make my way through this until having seen the first Peter Jackson movie, and, for one of the biggest classics in a genre I love, I&#8217;m not that fond of it still. The Soul of An Octopus &#8211; Sy Montgomery, 2015. How To Be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}