{"id":860,"date":"2019-08-16T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2019-08-16T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:07:09","slug":"another-time-another-place-another-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/16\/another-time-another-place-another-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Another time, another place, another book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This essay made me think about the experience of returning to a book I&#8217;ve read and loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, in a moment of grace, I glimpse the me-of-another-time that read and loved the work enough to want to return to it again someday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, it&#8217;s a rediscovery, and I wonder how I ever could have forgotten it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, it&#8217;s a disappointment; sometimes, I have a greater appreciation that the &#8216;me&#8217; of today brings to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been said that you can&#8217;t step in the same river twice. Equally true, that you can&#8217;t read the same book twice. But you can still appreciate the view, even if it&#8217;s not exactly the same, and be glad you made the journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-millions\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zMSQjxPR5G\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themillions.com\/2018\/08\/the-mirror-of-erised-on-death-harry-potter-and-retreating-to-childhood-reads.html\">The Mirror of Erised: On Death, Harry Potter, and Retreating to Childhood Reads<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The Mirror of Erised: On Death, Harry Potter, and Retreating to Childhood Reads&#8221; &#8212; The Millions\" src=\"https:\/\/themillions.com\/2018\/08\/the-mirror-of-erised-on-death-harry-potter-and-retreating-to-childhood-reads.html\/embed#?secret=3xt71LjjUu#?secret=zMSQjxPR5G\" data-secret=\"zMSQjxPR5G\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay made me think about the experience of returning to a book I&#8217;ve read and loved. Sometimes, in a moment of grace, I glimpse the me-of-another-time that read and loved the work enough to want to return to it again someday. Sometimes, it&#8217;s a rediscovery, and I wonder how I ever could have forgotten &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/16\/another-time-another-place-another-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another time, another place, another book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-philosophy","category-reading"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}