{"id":3148,"date":"2014-01-24T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2014-01-24T00:01:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T06:01:24","slug":"used-bookstores-are-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"USED BOOKSTORES AND THEIR TREASURES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 65px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-gVOWHc2L4Ug\/UKHAev8w3AI\/AAAAAAAAR8o\/50DWc3jnbcA\/s400\/h-l-mencken-amused.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have found several treasures rummaging through old bookstores, but none greater than my most recent find. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I spied out an old biography on H.L. Mencken for $1.00. \u00a0That alone was a find, but what was contained inside much better. \u00a0As I thumbed through to make sure it was a clean copy, I found to my utter astonishment that there were two personal letters from Mencken on his personal stationary. \u00a0And those two letters were just valued at $250 and $150 by a rare book dealer. \u00a0You can&#8217;t have that experience at your local Barnes and Noble! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have found several treasures rummaging through old bookstores, but none greater than my most recent find. \u00a0 I spied out an old biography on H.L. Mencken for $1.00. \u00a0That alone was a find, but what was contained inside much better. \u00a0As I thumbed through to make sure it was a clean copy, I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookstore","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}