{"id":2069,"date":"2003-12-28T06:26:01","date_gmt":"2003-12-28T22:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/28\/books-sirbooks\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T23:02:48","slug":"books-sirbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/12\/28\/books-sirbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Books, sir&#8230;books."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12565,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.neilgaiman.com\\\/journal\\\/2003_12_28_archive.asp#107263395723551934&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051103202707\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.neilgaiman.com:80\\\/journal\\\/2003_12_28_archive.asp&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 23:51:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 23:51:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  What did we do for endless and disheartening time-sinks before computers? I never lost twenty hours trying to make a fridge work properly, or to make a chair I&#8217;d accidentally upgraded turn itself back into something you could sit on.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&amp;mdash <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2003_12_28_archive.asp#107263395723551934\" title=\"Neil Gaiman\">Neil Gaiman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did we do for endless and disheartening time-sinks before computers? I never lost twenty hours trying to make a fridge work properly, or to make a chair I&#8217;d accidentally upgraded turn itself back into something you could sit on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}