{"id":25050,"date":"2011-07-16T19:57:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-really-should-we-even-care-if-the-books\/"},"modified":"2011-07-16T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T19:57:08","slug":"but-really-should-we-even-care-if-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-really-should-we-even-care-if-the-books\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But really, should we even care if the books weren\u2019t read? They\u2019re talismanic, remember. They exist principally as super-filters, as evokers of an implicit world. It\u2019s like ambient music: you may not even notice it\u2019s playing, but it gives you thoughts you wouldn\u2019t have if commercial pop were playing in the background. The books evoke desire, a desire for a better, more intelligent world. They can do that when read, but also when left unread on the shelf, because they are beautiful objects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/mrstsk.tumblr.com\/page\/12\">Mrs Tsk *<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.anfischer.com\/\">anfischer<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But really, should we even care if the books weren\u2019t read? They\u2019re talismanic, remember. They exist principally as super-filters, as evokers of an implicit world. It\u2019s like ambient music: you may not even notice it\u2019s playing, but it gives you thoughts you wouldn\u2019t have if commercial pop were playing in the background. The books evoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6w2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}