{"id":234,"date":"2005-04-17T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=234"},"modified":"2005-04-17T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T00:24:00","slug":"just-updated-the-books-section-of-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/just-updated-the-books-section-of-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Just updated the books section of this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just spent a coupla hours migrating my books section to a new blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/schmucknewsbooks.blogspot.com\">SchmucknewsBooks<\/a> (it&#8217;s the link labelled &#8220;books&#8221; in the menu bar).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much easier to navigate and update than the old version.<\/p>\n<p>And hopefully, the Amazon revenue I earn will allow me to buy more bookshelves. I have piles and piles of books in my flat. Quite seductive, actually.<\/p>\n<p>I will also be adding new booklists. For instance, I&#8217;ve got a few selected titles on BDSM. I&#8217;ve also got a few on property investing. So hopefully the lists will stay fairly dynamic. Do check out what I&#8217;ve selected from my shelves and lemme know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>And yes&#8230; every single book on my various lists IS in my home, and HAS been read by me. And I can tell you that not even 5% of my books will make it to this site. Just too many.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year-old nephew of an ex-girlfriend came to visit me once. When he walked in my front door, he said, &#8220;Roy! You live in a library!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just spent a coupla hours migrating my books section to a new blog, SchmucknewsBooks (it&#8217;s the link labelled &#8220;books&#8221; in the menu bar). It&#8217;s much easier to navigate and update than the old version. And hopefully, the Amazon revenue I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/just-updated-the-books-section-of-this-blog\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just updated the books section of this blog<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-3M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}