{"id":315,"date":"2013-10-31T18:18:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/?page_id=315"},"modified":"2013-11-02T07:10:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T07:10:37","slug":"the-books-that","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/?page_id=315","title":{"rendered":"The Books That&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m boxing my books to clear the basement for new carpeting and\u00a0wall painting, both long overdue. It&#8217;s a slow process as I tend to peruse each one and consider its place in my collection. Quite a few volumes represent steps forward (or sideways) for me, and occasionally turning points. These might be labeled \u201cthe books that\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 The books that made me love history. Biography. Epic tales and intimate stories. The books that inspired me to write. To leave my comfort zone and jump headlong into people and places I knew nothing about. To write <i>Salt Warriors<\/i> and try my hand at a forgotten child kidnapping. They are the books that grabbed and shook me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll tip my hat to them in coming posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The books that made me love history. Biography. Epic tales and intimate stories. The books that inspired me to write. To leave my comfort zone and jump headlong into people and places I knew nothing about. To write Salt Warriors and try my hand at a forgotten child kidnapping. They are the books that grabbed and shook me.  I&#8217;ll tip my hat to them in coming posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":120,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-blog.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-315","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315\/revisions\/322"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulcoolbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}