{"id":31685,"date":"2016-03-12T08:19:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=31685"},"modified":"2016-03-12T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T19:19:22","slug":"a-book-is-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/03\/12\/a-book-is-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Book Is A Dream&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;A book is a dream you hold in your hand.&#8221;<\/em> ~ Neil Gaiman<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Wonderful quote, neh?<\/p>\n<p>And on that got me thinking about another wonderful quote , which followers here will know is one of my favourites:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>\u201cThink of this \u2013 that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.\u201d <\/em>~ A.S. Byatt<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>So if Neil Gaiman is right and a book is a dream, and AS Byatt is also correct, then a book is a shared dream between writer and reader &#8212; but which each may nonetheless experience in both similar and different ways.<\/p>\n<p>Which just goes to show that there may be a touch of magic left in this world of ours, after all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>For those of you on the watch for <em>58:Eridani<\/em> it will post either later today or tomorrow&#8212;with apologies for the element of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A book is a dream you hold in your hand.&#8221; ~ Neil Gaiman Wonderful quote, neh? And on that got me thinking about another wonderful quote , which followers here will know is one of my favourites: \u201cThink of this \u2013 that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31687,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31685\/revisions\/31687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}