{"id":25162,"date":"2011-05-20T16:54:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/charlottledarwin-why-old-books-smell-good\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:27:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:27:59","slug":"charlottledarwin-why-old-books-smell-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/charlottledarwin-why-old-books-smell-good\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-25162 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/charlottledarwin-why-old-books-smell-good\/attachment\/25163\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lizujeQiDc1qixd82o1_400-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charlottledarwin.tumblr.com\/post\/5177225440\">charlottledarwin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Why Old Books Smell Good<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><small>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lignin\">Lignin<\/a>, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanillin\">vanillin<\/a>. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\u2014From Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenapplebooks.com\/book\/9780143115014\">Perfumes: the<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenapplebooks.com\/book\/9780143115014\">guide<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>charlottledarwin: Why Old Books Smell Good \u201cLignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to\u00a0vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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-25162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6xQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162","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=25162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25164,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25162\/revisions\/25164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}