{"id":1983,"date":"2009-07-14T00:39:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2009-07-14T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T05:39:11","slug":"thumbs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1983","title":{"rendered":"Thumb&#039;s Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That new website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperbackswap.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Paperbackswap.com<\/a>, <a href=\"\/2009\/06\/21\/paperback-swap\/\" target=\"_blank\">I joined last month<\/a> has turned out to be a winner.<\/p>\n<p>Well, in terms of getting books for free anyway. I&#8217;ve only diminished my own pile of books by three so far, but I&#8217;m hopeful more will go. I&#8217;m scouring my shelves for more books to post.<\/p>\n<p>I got both of Bella&#8217;s AP summer reading books: <em>The Adventures of Huck Finn<\/em> and <em>The Narrative Autobiography of Frederick Douglass<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And I ordered two of the three books my sister wanted at Christmas but was not able to find at Barnes and Noble: <em>Snow Flower and the Secret Fan<\/em> by Lisa See and <em>Count Karlstein<\/em> by Philip Pullman. (The third one was that <em>Lessons Shamu Taught Me<\/em> &#8211; where Shamu&#8217;s trainer applies her whale training techniques on her husband with great success &#8211; I just ordered through amazon.)<\/p>\n<p>Five books that I wanted\/needed for free in one month is pretty good I say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That new website, Paperbackswap.com, I joined last month has turned out to be a winner. Well, in terms of getting books for free anyway. I&#8217;ve only diminished my own pile of books by three so far, but I&#8217;m hopeful more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1983\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}