{"id":2031,"date":"2007-07-21T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2007-07-21T08:21:57","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T13:21:57","slug":"my-saturday-pla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2007\/07\/my-saturday-pla\/","title":{"rendered":"My Saturday Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.  Vacuum the family room.<br \/>\n2.  Take Hambet to swimming lessons.<br \/>\n3.  Make dinner (bratwurst on the grill.)<br \/>\n4.  Wait for the THUMP on the doorstep that means the UPS man&#8217;s brought my book:<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=twosleepymomm-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0545010225&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>.<br \/>\nDrop everything and start reading, remembering to take it slowly.<br \/>\n5.  Kick myself for not having plugged this book when I read it in May:<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=twosleepymomm-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0972322124&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI wish I&#8217;d had this book in college just as a general reference.  The chapters on alchemy were fascinating, and the chapters on post-modernism were enormously helpful (and jargon-free.)  I&#8217;m going to try to get my husband to read it, even though he will probably never open a Potter book, for its explanation of how symbols really work (as opposed to the this-equals-this &#8220;code&#8221; approach.<br \/>\nI understand that Granger will update the book post-<em>Deathly Hallows<\/em>.  It will be well worth reading, both as a guide to Potter and a friendly guide to reading in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Vacuum the family room. 2. Take Hambet to swimming lessons. 3. Make dinner (bratwurst on the grill.) 4. Wait for the THUMP on the doorstep that means the UPS man&#8217;s brought my book: . Drop everything and start reading, remembering to take it slowly. 5. Kick myself for not having plugged this book when&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2007\/07\/my-saturday-pla\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Saturday Plans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}