{"id":6891,"date":"2017-04-19T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T16:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6891"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T16:36:40","slug":"what-makes-a-great-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6891","title":{"rendered":"WHAT MAKES A GREAT BOOK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?attachment_id=6306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/photo-11-copy-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/photo-11-copy-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/photo-11-copy-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/photo-11-copy-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/photo-11-copy-1-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For me, the answer has come from a simple mathematical equation.\u00a0 I take the total number of pages in a book and divide by two.\u00a0 If my total marginal notes exceeds that number then most likely the book was invaluable to read.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This does not mean, of course, that I agree with everything in the book.\u00a0 It does mean the book provoked much fruitful interaction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The photo above is my copy of the terrific, <em>Flannery O&#8217;Connor and the Christ-Haunted South<\/em> by Ralph Woods.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, the answer has come from a simple mathematical equation.\u00a0 I take the total number of pages in a book and divide by two.\u00a0 If my total marginal notes exceeds that number then most likely the book was invaluable to read.\u00a0 This does not mean, of course, that I agree with everything in the [&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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891","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=6891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6894,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions\/6894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}