{"id":1933,"date":"2020-11-19T22:09:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2021-02-07T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T20:55:11","slug":"this-is-a-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=1933","title":{"rendered":"Squashed Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehundredbooks.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.thehundredbooks.com\">www.thehundredbooks.com<\/a>, which also is the home of Squashed Editions. These kind folks have taken the hundred books you&#8217;re supposed to have read in order to be A Literate And Erudite Person and, well, squashed them. Let&#8217;s think of it as a kindness towards people who looked at authors like Dickens and thought, &#8220;I just can&#8217;t quite eat the whole whale,&#8221; and passed on by. Now you can try a snack-sized portion as an inducement to read the original in its entirety! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"488\" src=\"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TitleMakeSense.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1945\"\/><figcaption>we&#8217;ve all been there, right?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across www.thehundredbooks.com, which also is the home of Squashed Editions. These kind folks have taken the hundred books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}