{"id":458,"date":"2002-09-19T18:52:54","date_gmt":"2002-09-20T00:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/whats-old-is-new-again\/"},"modified":"2002-09-19T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2002-09-20T00:52:54","slug":"whats-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/whats-old-is-new-again\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s old is new again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, we used to go the library almost every Saturday. This practice slowly died out as I hit my teenage years and I only briefly checked out books to read for pleasure in college. For most of my post college years, I&#8217;ve been buying books that I wanted to read, either from <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect-home\/thechunk-20\">Amazon<\/a> or <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.halfpricebooks.com\">Half Price Books<\/a>. I&#8217;ve recently resumed my volunteer teaching for <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.austinfree.net\">Austin Free-Net<\/a> at the Riverside Branch Library and with it, have rediscovered the library itself.  I temporarily forgot about this great deal where you can borrow a book, read it, and then return it at no cost. Wow. Who woulda thunk? It&#8217;s especially cool as it seems that the books that I&#8217;m interested in (like the Current Read) don&#8217;t seem to be the hot items at my local branch. I&#8217;m having no trouble finding things that I&#8217;ve been wanting to read, but didn&#8217;t want to shell out the cash for. I&#8217;m also hoping to get The Boy addicted the way I was at his age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, we used to go the library almost every Saturday. This practice slowly died out as I hit my teenage years and I only briefly checked out books to read for pleasure in college. For most of my post college years, I&#8217;ve been buying books that I wanted to read, either <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/whats-old-is-new-again\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-8-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-7o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}