{"id":183,"date":"2007-06-24T13:24:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2007-06-24T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T18:24:37","slug":"a-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"A Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being in the middle of a good book is like having a secret. I occasionally look up from it, notice the people around me, and realize that they’re not happily lost in this other world the way that I am.<\/p>\n

Especially if the book isn’t a popular one. I’m sure that I’d feel this way somewhat if I were enjoying the latest Harry Potter (which, incidentally, may or may not have been leaked<\/a>). But it’s especially strong when I’m reading one that practically no one I know has ever read.<\/p>\n

It’s similar to having woken up before sunrise, gazing at the empty streets, then watching as they slowly fill with people. Those people don’t know something that you know.<\/p>\n

I sure as hell don’t plan to get up before sunrise (and STAY up), but I’m reading a really good book. It’s fun, and little lonely, to be the only one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being in the middle of a good book is like having a secret. I occasionally look up from it, notice the people around me, and realize that they’re not happily lost in this other world the way that I am. Especially if the book isn’t a popular one. I’m sure that I’d feel this way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-languagelit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}