{"id":8054,"date":"2014-05-16T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:05","slug":"what-is-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/16\/what-is-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a Book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/05\/what-is-a-book\/361876\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lead.jpg\" alt=\"What Is a Book? - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0a book\u00c2\u00a0<em>is\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>its text. A book is a unique string of words, as good as its bits.<\/p>\n<p>But printed books are also objects, manufactured objects, owned objects, objects that have been marked by pencils and time and coffee cups and the oils from our skin. &#8220;<strong>A book is more than a bag of words<\/strong>,&#8221; the project&#8217;s founder, University of Virginia&#8217;s Andrew Stauffer, told me. &#8220;These books as objects have a lot to tell us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/05\/what-is-a-book\/361876\/\">What Is a Book? &#8211; Alexis C. Madrigal &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A book is more than a bag of words,&#8230;books as objects have a lot to tell us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[162,932],"class_list":["post-8054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-book","tag-book-as-object"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8061,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions\/8061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}