{"id":502,"date":"2009-04-17T12:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T17:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2009-04-17T12:33:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T17:33:56","slug":"is-it-ok-not-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Is it ok not to read?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading a book and two magazines at the moment, and left them both at home.<\/p>\n<p>So I sat on the train, staring around like the rest of the ruminants. It occurred to me that I can take it. I can stand not having something to read for a while. It&#8217;s ok. I can daydream.<\/p>\n<p>But I really didn&#8217;t like other people thinking that I&#8217;m the kind of person who commutes without something to read. I wanted to fashion a sign that explained that this was a temporary situation, not my preference.<\/p>\n<p>Sad, I know.<\/p>\n<p>(Fortunately, there&#8217;s a book on hold for me at the library, so I&#8217;ll have something for the ride home.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading a book and two magazines at the moment, and left them both at home. So I sat on the train, staring around like the rest of the ruminants. It occurred to me that I can take it. I can stand not having something to read for a while. It&#8217;s ok. I can daydream. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","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=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}