{"id":4499,"date":"2014-12-04T18:34:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T02:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2014-12-04T18:35:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T02:35:02","slug":"how-i-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2014\/12\/how-i-read\/","title":{"rendered":"How I read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. &#8216;I have looked into it.&#8217; &#8216;What, (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through? Johnson, offended at being so pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, &#8216;No, Sir, do <em>you<\/em> read books <em>through<\/em>?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>James Boswell, <em>Life of Johnson<\/em>, April 19, 1773 (in my 1924 Oxford University Press edition, vol. 1, p. 493)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. &#8216;I have looked into it.&#8217; &#8216;What, (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through? Johnson, offended at being so pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, &#8216;No, Sir, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2014\/12\/how-i-read\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How I read&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture","tag-dr-samuel-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}