{"id":764,"date":"2003-09-23T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=764"},"modified":"2003-09-23T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2003-09-23T14:59:11","slug":"imitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/09\/imitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Imitation&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do hope dear <a href=\"http:\/\/floscarmeli.stblogs.org\/\">Steven <\/a>doesn&#8217;t mind my shamelessly copying so many of his category titles, but he comes up with such good ones!<br \/>\nI especially like <a href=\"http:\/\/floscarmeli.stblogs.org\/archives\/cat_commonplace_book.html\">&#8220;Commonplace Book.&#8221;<\/a>  Steven is only the third person I&#8217;ve ever heard use <a href=\"http:\/\/216.239.41.104\/search?q=cache:FZhDxx098TsJ:www.digitalmedievalist.com\/it\/2002\/02\/08.html+%22commonplace+book%22&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8\">that phrase<\/a>.  I first encountered it in college, in a little article in <i>Victoria<\/i> magazine.  A commonplace book is basically a personal book of favorite quotations.  The magazine featured books that were true works of art, decorated and illustrated by their owners.  That kind of intimidated me from starting my own &#8212; I would keep putting it off for when I had time to copy each entry in perfect Italic calligraphy, with appropriate illustrations.  Meanwhile, I just kept sticking copies of poems I liked into a file folder (a folder I recently discovered I&#8217;d lost!  ARRRRGH!)  I finally started a new book the other day (one entry so far.)<br \/>\nMany people are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmedievalist.com\/it\/archive\/000007.html\">comparing blogs to commonplace books<\/a>, and I certainly see the similarities.  But the humble notebook still has its advantages as well&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do hope dear Steven doesn&#8217;t mind my shamelessly copying so many of his category titles, but he comes up with such good ones! I especially like &#8220;Commonplace Book.&#8221; Steven is only the third person I&#8217;ve ever heard use that phrase. I first encountered it in college, in a little article in Victoria magazine. A&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/09\/imitation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Imitation&#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}