{"id":567,"date":"2004-09-10T15:56:59","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T23:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/10\/more-book\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:20:39","slug":"more-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/10\/more-book\/","title":{"rendered":"More Book!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several days ago I posted a <a href=\"\/mindfullife\/archives\/000556.html\">rant\/request by my friend<\/a>, Marta, encouraging people to read more, and specifically to read a novel by someone unheard of, someone who doesn&#8217;t have the marketing machine promoting the book.  Ever the cooperative friend, I wandered into Waldenbooks with <a href=\"http:\/\/siona.blogspot.com\">Siona<\/a> today and searched.  It was a challenge to find a book; in small corporate bookstores, most of the fiction on the shelves are bestsellers or serials.  There were many authors whose work I haven&#8217;t (and probably won&#8217;t) ever read, but of whom I&#8217;ve heard, so I passed them over.  It took awhile, but I managed to find <a title=\"\nAmazon.com: Books: The Rice Mother\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0142004545\/qid=1094851194\/sr=12-1\/104-6678260-7488703?v=glance&#038;s=books\">The Rice Mother<\/a>, a first novel by Rani Manicka.  I look forward to diving in.  Of course, I&#8217;m reading two other fiction books, as well as a nonfiction book or two.  And if I spent less time on the Internet, I might get more read!  So off I go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several days ago I posted a rant\/request by my friend, Marta, encouraging people to read more, and specifically to read a novel by someone unheard of, someone who doesn&#8217;t have the marketing machine promoting the book. Ever the cooperative friend, I wandered into Waldenbooks with Siona today and searched. It was a challenge to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12839,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/12839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}