{"id":1189,"date":"2003-01-04T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-04T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/01\/on-my-nightstand-and-in-the-dvd.html"},"modified":"2003-01-04T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-04T23:06:00","slug":"on-my-nightstand-and-in-the-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2003\/01\/on-my-nightstand-and-in-the-dvd.html","title":{"rendered":"On My Nightstand and in the DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a few years, just after grad school, I kept a log of all the books I’d read with just a sentence or two about them. When I went traveling, and I had to pare down what I carried with me, I stopped doing it (which is remarkably similar to my vegetarian ways: for five years no meat, but then when traveling, poof<\/i>, I found I needed to pare down my restrictions and I started eating meat again). I’ve missed doing that, if for no other reason than I have a bad memory, and often I’ll pick up a book and think, “Have I read that already?” To that end, I’m going to try again with a book–and movie–log<\/a>. My self-imposed rules are 1) I can only include it if I read\/watched it all the way through (none of those good-intentioned reads that I only make it halfway through) and 2) all movies and books make it no matter how embarrassing to me. I’m starting fresh with the new year–no back filling for me. There’s a permanent link on the right nav if you’re ever curious about what’s entertaining me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a few years, just after grad school, I kept a log of all the books I’d read with just a sentence or two about them. When I went traveling, and I had to pare down what I carried with me, I stopped doing it (which is remarkably similar to my vegetarian ways: for five […]<\/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-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}