{"id":206,"date":"2008-02-22T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-02-22T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T03:50:00","slug":"books-and-more-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/books-and-more-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books and more books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R75GtHCh2QI\/AAAAAAAAAWM\/snGy7JCDdbs\/s1600-h\/02_21_shelves.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/R75GtHCh2QI\/AAAAAAAAAWM\/snGy7JCDdbs\/s200\/02_21_shelves.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169647163065620738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Today I took a stab at organizing the books in this set of shelves. My books are overflowing their shelves again &#8230; still &#8230; always &#8230; it&#8217;s just hopeless. Besides these bookshelves, which are in my studio, I have a similar but shorter set of shelves in another part of the studio, plus more built-in shelving over cabinets that span one whole wall, broken up in the middle by a hallway. I also have built-in shelves upstairs, and the rest of my art books take up two sections of those &#8212; each section is about the size of the bookshelves shown here.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s time to cull. Who am I kidding? It&#8217;s always time to cull. Because I can rarely bring myself to do it, and it&#8217;s downright dangerous. Today I came across some gems I want to re-read with new, older eyes, and some ideas I want to try, and some inspiration. It&#8217;s tempting to just sit down in the middle of the studio floor and revisit some of these books.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the overflowing books problems, the studio is something of a wreck from recent framing and matting. I mailed off a few pieces for the show at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paintedfishgallery.com\/main.cfm\">The Painted Fish<\/a>, and generally got caught up on a bunch of little projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I took a stab at organizing the books in this set of shelves. My books are overflowing their shelves again &#8230; still &#8230; always &#8230; it&#8217;s just hopeless. Besides these bookshelves, which are in my studio, I have a similar but shorter set of shelves in another part of the studio, plus more built-in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/books-and-more-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Books and more books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-else"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-3k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}