{"id":9204,"date":"2021-10-21T13:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9204"},"modified":"2021-10-21T17:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T22:52:01","slug":"mark-up-your-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9204","title":{"rendered":"MARK UP YOUR BOOKS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am regularly delighted to find people I respect who diligently mark up what they are reading. Here is another example I found today: J.I. Packer! Though having a top-flight education he still saw marking up his reading as the only proper engagement with a book!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0ZEh0kHkLQ\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0ZEh0kHkLQ\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B1XPWRsp3Bo\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B1XPWRsp3Bo\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And here is a smart friend by the name of Dave McCoy. Dave has a PhD in chemistry, but does not let that get in the way of him marking up his books. Check out his copy of James Joyce&#8217;s <em>Finnegans Wake<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?attachment_id=8214\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8214\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_0302-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_0302-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_0302-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_0302-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_0302-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_0302-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And by all means make sure to mark up your Bibles! You are leaving spiritual bread crumbs for your children and children&#8217;s children. One of my Bibles followed by one of Doreen&#8217;s. We put the same notes in two study Bibles so our sons and their families can have a record of our journey with Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?attachment_id=9208\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-1-e1634844106930-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-1-e1634844106930-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-1-e1634844106930-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-1-e1634844106930-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-1-e1634844106930-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-1-e1634844106930-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?attachment_id=9211\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-e1634846014865-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-e1634846014865-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-e1634846014865-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-e1634846014865-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-e1634846014865-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Jer-e1634846014865-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am regularly delighted to find people I respect who diligently mark up what they are reading. Here is another example I found today: J.I. Packer! Though having a top-flight education he still saw marking up his reading as the only proper engagement with a book! And here is a smart friend by the name [&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":[159,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-taking","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204","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=9204"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9214,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions\/9214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}