{"id":5563,"date":"2014-10-14T19:57:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T23:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2014-10-14T19:58:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T23:58:03","slug":"two-kinds-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5563","title":{"rendered":"Two Kinds of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two kinds of books:<\/p>\n<p>1. Books you don't need to read.<\/p>\n<p>2. Books you must read.<\/p>\n<p>For #1, you merely need to read the reviews, summaries. If someone recommends one of such and could not give a review or summary properly, then it is very telling of that person's character.<\/p>\n<p>For #2, It is treasured, memorized even. A hard copy of it is kept next to the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two kinds of books: 1. Books you don't need to read. 2. Books you must read. For #1, you merely need to read the reviews, summaries. If someone recommends one of such and could not give a review &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5565,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}