{"id":388,"date":"2010-11-26T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=388"},"modified":"2010-11-26T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T01:30:08","slug":"one-book-leads-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/26\/one-book-leads-to-another\/","title":{"rendered":"One Book Leads to Another"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arthur & George<\/a> has been on my shelf for at least a year, maybe more.\u00a0 I glanced at it now and then but always passed it by.\u00a0 When I did pick it up last week, I found it somewhat slow going.\u00a0 A visit to Wikipedia confirmed that it was based on a true story about Arthur Conan Doyle and I wondered if I even wanted to finish it once I knew the details of the story.<\/p>\n

But somewhere along the line, it caught my attention.\u00a0 I think it was the character of Conan Doyle.\u00a0 I always picture him looking like Sherlock Holmes, think, beak nose.\u00a0 But he was\u00a0 big burly man, an enthusiastic thinker and writer who spent much of his life pursuing justice for people like George Edjali.\u00a0 He was an ardent spiritualist as well.\u00a0 His enthusiasm carried me along.<\/p>\n

After over a year, I ended up at the library this week and really wanted to check out a book. I checked out other books by Julian Barnes<\/a> and then found an edition of two of Arthur Conan Doyle’s romances <\/a>based in 14th century England: The White Company <\/em>and Sir Nigel.<\/em> A rowdy good read!<\/p>\n

Here’s my only problem…I’ve been working very hard on several different projects.\u00a0 But today I had free time and just wanted to sit and read.\u00a0 Problem?\u00a0 I just can’t seem to concentrate the way I used to, when I would sink into a book and lose track of all time.\u00a0 Now, all I can think about is what needs to be done either in the way of work or around the house.\u00a0 But, it’s night time and I’m heading to bed to read…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arthur & George has been on my shelf for at least a year, maybe more.\u00a0 I glanced at it now and then but always passed it by.\u00a0 When I did pick it up last week, I found it somewhat slow going.\u00a0 A visit to Wikipedia confirmed that it was based \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[102,103],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-6g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}