{"id":19,"date":"2003-11-17T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=19"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"why-havent-i-been-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/17\/why-havent-i-been-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Why haven&#8217;t I been reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those two of you who actually look at this site may wonder why I haven&#8217;t posted any book reviews in over a month.  Lots of reasons.  Things got busy at work.  I got a new car, so I was driving instead of taking public transit to work, which cut into my reading time.  I took a five-day weekend to attend a friend&#8217;s wedding in Washington D.C., where I almost finished a book (David Brin&#8217;s Transparent Society) on the plane ride back, but haven&#8217;t gotten around to finishing it since then.  I&#8217;ve been distracted trying to keep up with my normal Economist and Science News subscriptions.  I&#8217;ve been trying to write more blog entries.  October and November are the start of the new television season, so I was watching a couple new shows and several old favorites.  It&#8217;s also football season, so Sundays now have a significant time-sink.  I&#8217;ve started <a href=http:\/\/www.sful.org>playing ultimate<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/www.salsacrazy.com\/dancesf\/register.html>taking salsa lessons<\/a>.  Lots of excuses.  No good answers.  And it&#8217;s not likely to change until the new year because I&#8217;ve got craziness in <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/chorus>the chorus<\/a> coming up, with the christmas concert and the Messiah on consecutive weeks in December.  Rest assured I will get back to reading at some point, probably when my monster Amazon order gets in &#8211; I currently have something like $100 worth of books sitting in my shopping cart at Amazon, just waiting for me to click &#8220;Checkout&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those two of you who actually look at this site may wonder why I haven&#8217;t posted any book reviews in over a month. Lots of reasons. Things got busy at work. I got a new car, so I was driving instead of taking public transit to work, which cut into my reading time. I took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}