{"id":1003,"date":"2013-04-07T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2013-04-07T19:43:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T23:43:07","slug":"todays-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to try and keep track of the books coming into my house.   Had another great trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portrichmondbooks.com\/\">Port Richmond Books <\/a>today (watch out, Richmond Street is closed) and found two things: <\/p>\n<p>A paperback copy of Nell Painter&#8217;s Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era.  I had read much of this book studying for my oral exams, along with the other syntheses of this time period including both Alan Dawley&#8217;s, Jackson Lears&#8217;s efforts, but  I didn&#8217;t buy a copy then.  Seven bucks, not bad.  <\/p>\n<p>Now PRB has a crazy collection of dictionary\/words\/writing\/style\/usage books that are spread across a couple of shelves.  I love these books, love reading them, picking at them, hoping I&#8217;ll get the perfect description of how to use a particular word or how to manage parallel constructions.  Today I found a hardback copy of &#8220;The Complete Stylist&#8221; by Sheridan Baker.  I&#8217;d not seen his other books but this 1966 book had a number of cool looking chapters that I wanted to wander through.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to try and keep track of the books coming into my house. Had another great trip to Port Richmond Books today (watch out, Richmond Street is closed) and found two things: A paperback copy of Nell Painter&#8217;s Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era. I had read much of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today&#8217;s Books<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-gb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}