{"id":56,"date":"2007-08-02T11:28:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T01:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2007-08-02T11:28:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T01:28:47","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book\"<\/p>\n

There’s nothing quite like a good book. Dive under the cover and lose yourself for a few hours or a few days. The ideal place to pick them up is a quality second hand dealer. They’re cheap, there’s always a heap of the classics, and you can tell that someone else has read and loved them before you.<\/p>\n

By far my favourite thing is discovering an amazing new author, maybe fresh faced or maybe long dead. When a book’s only costing you $4, you can afford to take the risk and try something new. Or pick up an old childhood favourite.<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s spur of the moment foray into Rapid Eye Books ended with the credit card out and me forcibly dragging myself away from the pile of ‘maybe I should get this one as well’ titles. It’s ok though, there’s something about books that makes it easy to justify spending the last of your food budget on a few good paperbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing quite like a good book. Dive under the cover and lose yourself for a few hours or a few days. The ideal place to pick them up is a quality second hand dealer. They’re cheap, there’s always a heap of the classics, and you can tell that someone else has read and loved … Continue reading “Books!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}