{"id":734,"date":"2008-03-12T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2008-03-12T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T21:07:00","slug":"buddenbrooks-is-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Buddenbrooks is everywhere."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, another post about LibraryThing.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/groups\/iseedeadpeoplesbooks<\/p>\n<p>This is a group which catalogs the libraries of of dead people.  As an LT member, I can compare my collection with theirs.  I assume it will come as little surprise that I don&#8217;t have any books in common with Tupac Shakur*, but I was astonished to find how many I have in common with Hemingway.   Gladdening to see I don&#8217;t share any with Dreiser, depressing I have none with Joyce.  21 books in common with Walker Percy?  Really?<\/p>\n<p>Can you tell anything about someone from their library?  How much?  Somewhere between &#8220;where they came from&#8221; and &#8220;who they wanted to be&#8221;, I&#8217;d say.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">*Yes, that&#8217;s two Tupac references this fortnight.  Didn&#8217;t see that comin&#8217;, didja?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, another post about LibraryThing. http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/groups\/iseedeadpeoplesbooks This is a group which catalogs the libraries of of dead people. As an LT member, I can compare my collection with theirs. I assume it will come as little surprise that I don&#8217;t have any books in common with Tupac Shakur*, but I was astonished to find how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}