{"id":2762,"date":"2004-07-27T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2004-07-27T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T16:51:04","slug":"rabid-bout-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/27\/rabid-bout-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabid &#8216;Bout Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for a bus in downtown Seattle, I see a disheveled and possibly deranged man with an enormous duffle bag sidling down the sidewalk, stopping to bellow &#8220;Are you going to the library?!&#8221; at each and every person in turn.  Most ignore him until he moves on, but some &#8212; out of compulsive politeness, or because they have somehow mistaken this raving for a sincere query &#8212; begin to reply &#8220;No, I&#8217;m waiting for my &#8211;&#8221; at which point the man cuts them short with an impassioned and spittle-intensive &#8220;GO TO THE LIBRARY!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I dunno.  Call me cynical, but I just don&#8217;t think Seattle&#8217;s literacy program is all that effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for a bus in downtown Seattle, I see a disheveled and possibly deranged man with an enormous duffle bag sidling down the sidewalk, stopping to bellow &#8220;Are you going to the library?!&#8221; at each and every person in turn. Most ignore him until he moves on, but some &#8212; out of compulsive politeness, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-posts","category-observations","category-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}