{"id":3272,"date":"2015-05-01T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2015-05-01T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:41:07","slug":"plucked-from-obscurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3272","title":{"rendered":"Plucked from Obscurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/wpid-img_20150501_181827.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20150501_181827.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/wpid-img_20150501_181827.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every time I borrow a book from the library I like to look at the return dates on the slip of paper pasted at the first page. It is also for this reason that I still prefer to check out my books at the counter rather than use the self-checkout machines. Still prefer old school you know? If the date before my return date was a long time ago like the book I just borrowed today, I feel strangely happy to have plucked the book back out of obscurity. After all, books should be read and not left to rot on the shelf, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I borrow a book from the library I like to look at the return dates on the slip of paper pasted at the first page. It is also for this reason that I still prefer to check out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}