{"id":292,"date":"2012-06-02T21:07:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T01:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2012-06-02T21:10:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T01:10:58","slug":"treasures-found-at-a-used-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/02\/treasures-found-at-a-used-book-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasures found at a used book sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve lucky to have a really good used book store in town.\u00a0 A couple of times a year they have a sale, with several table heaped with cheap books and regular books priced at 20% off.\u00a0 The sales items are $1 each, with paperbacks at 3 for $1.\u00a0 Such a bargoon!<\/p>\n<p>As the books are sold, the staff bring out more boxes to renew the piles on the tables.\u00a0 For a book-a-holic like myself, that is almost torture!\u00a0 As soon as I pick over all the tables, out come more books.\u00a0 But there comes a point when I must be strong and force myself to leave &#8230; typically when the large cardboard box they supply is full.\u00a0 I usually keep the extent of my addiction to a single boxload.\u00a0 Usually.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, here&#8217;s what I picked up today.\u00a0 There some treasures and some silly picks.\u00a0 Hey, we can afford to pick up silly stuff when it&#8217;s only $1!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG-20120602-00156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-293\" title=\"Pile of cheap books from book sale.\" src=\"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG-20120602-00156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG-20120602-00156.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG-20120602-00156-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG-20120602-00156-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve lucky to have a really good used book store in town.\u00a0 A couple of times a year they have a sale, with several table heaped with cheap books and regular books priced at 20% off.\u00a0 The sales items are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/02\/treasures-found-at-a-used-book-sale\/\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}