{"id":191,"date":"2016-05-09T15:33:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/?p=191"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:44:09","slug":"thebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_193\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JustSoStoriesc1912-e1462807409656.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-193\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JustSoStoriesc1912-e1462807409656-243x300.png\" alt=\"Kipling, Rudyard, Gleeson, Joseph M. (Joseph Michael), or Bransom, Paul, 1885- (ill.) \/ Wikimedia Commons \/ Public Domain\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JustSoStoriesc1912-e1462807409656-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/JustSoStoriesc1912-e1462807409656.png 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kipling, Rudyard \u00a0\/ Wikimedia Commons \/ Public Domain<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s chasmic, the fall of words down lines curved by the half open page to the black gulch below, where shadows form on sunny days or in the half light, oblique; at fifty degrees and cool as the cover is under the fingers on the other side of the world: fifty degrees and cool, the right angle for light and weather.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I knew a boy in junior school who&#8217;d rub the ear of the upcoming page restlessly &#8212; tschk, tschk, tschk, tschk, tschk &#8212; until he could turn it and continue.<\/p>\n<p>Fat softcover fantasy too heavy to hold for long without a prop is curled up to, a little finger absently at work along the gnarled, obdurate spine.<\/p>\n<p>The yellowing of the paper, the loss of the printer&#8217;s musk, replaced by mites and dust. A thing that weathers. A geography. A chasm. A world. That is the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s chasmic, the fall of words down lines curved by the half open page to the black gulch below, where shadows form on sunny days or in the half light, oblique; at fifty degrees and cool as the cover is under the fingers on the other side of the world:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[50,52,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-literature","10":"tag-reading"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanmole.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}