{"id":1263,"date":"2021-01-21T20:44:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2021-01-21T20:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T20:44:46","slug":"thursday-thoughts-why-i-blog-about-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Thoughts: Why I blog about books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, my little book blog was four years old. I should really have posted yesterday, but I got a little caught up in the Inauguration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, why did I start my book blog? That is a very simple answer: I absolutely love books. Ever since I was a child, collecting books was one of my favourite hobbies. I just loved reading and having bookshelves full of pretty books. One of my favourite places to visit was pretty much any bookshop &#8211; especially if I was lucky enough to have a book token to spend, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, as I have got older, not a lot &#8211; well, let&#8217;s be honest &#8211; absolutely nothing has changed. I love books, and I simply want to share my love of books with others. I don&#8217;t claim to be an expert blogger, or a particularly good book reviewer. However, if I can share a book that others might be inspired to read, then that is a win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do also make a decision to only share books I have enjoyed, and that is because if I do not enjoy a book, I probably &#8216;do not finish&#8217; it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have something that you are passionate about, why not share your thoughts with others? You never know &#8211; you may inspire someone to try something new. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my little book blog was four years old. I should really have posted yesterday, but I got a little caught up in the Inauguration. So, why did I start my book blog? That is a very simple answer: I absolutely love books. Ever since I was a child, collecting books was one of my [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[6,643],"tags":[644],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-thursday-thoughts","tag-thursday-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jrc7-kn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}