{"id":17836,"date":"2018-10-07T06:52:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T03:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=17836"},"modified":"2018-10-07T06:52:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T03:52:21","slug":"must-not-touch-the-preciousss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/07\/must-not-touch-the-preciousss\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Must not touch the preciousss&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/wormwoodiana.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/secondhand-bookshops-in-britain-and-in.html\">Wormwoodania<\/a><\/em> today&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;The Lost Tragedy&#8217; by Denis Mackail, is a gently humorous piece (which was very much his style) set in a London second-hand bookshop. The narrator says: &#8220;Mr Bunstable\u2019s book-shop represents a type of establishment which has pretty well disappeared from our modern cities. [It is a &#8216;dusty, labyrinthine bookshop, with teetering piles of titles everywhere&#8217;] As all who have considered the subject must agree, the principal object of any book-seller is to obstruct, as far as possible, the sale of books&#8230;&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve often thought something similar about librarians as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wormwoodania today&#8230; &#8220;&#8216;The Lost Tragedy&#8217; by Denis Mackail, is a gently humorous piece (which was very much his style) set &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/07\/must-not-touch-the-preciousss\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unnamable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}