{"id":521,"date":"2009-08-19T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2013-06-20T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:24:25","slug":"what-are-great-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"What are Great Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradleyggreen.com\/\">Brad Green<\/a>, sent me this quote from Serge Lancel in his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0334028663?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0334028663\">St Augustine<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ewcotuaiucqlzdpizexk\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0334028663\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, on what great books are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; . . . they are the repositories of irreplaceably personal words which achieve their deepest meaning in the setting of a closely circumscribed area of someone&#8217;s life.&#8221;\u009d (p. 204)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague, Brad Green, sent me this quote from Serge Lancel in his book, St Augustine, on what great books are: &#8221; . . . they are the repositories of irreplaceably personal words which achieve their deepest meaning in the setting of a closely circumscribed area of someone&#8217;s life.&#8221;\u009d (p. 204)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}