{"id":3346,"date":"2012-11-08T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2012-11-08T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T16:23:04","slug":"reading-125-titles-a-year-thats-one-for-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/reading-125-titles-a-year-thats-one-for-the-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading 125 Titles A Year? That&#039;s &#039;One For The Books&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/11\/books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3348\" style=\"margin-left: 7px;margin-right: 7px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/11\/books.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/11\/01\/163949969\/reading-125-titles-a-year-thats-one-for-the-books?sc=17&amp;f=1008\">NPR Article &#8211; November 1, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Queenan reads so many books, it&#8217;s amazing that he can also find  time to write them. Queenan estimates he&#8217;s read between 6,000 and 7,000  books total, at a rate of about 125 books a year \u2014 (or 100 in a &#8220;slow&#8221;  year). &#8220;Some years I just went completely nuts,&#8221;  Queenan tells NPR&#8217;s Robert Siegel. &#8220;A couple years ago I read about  250. I was trying to read a book every single day of the year but I kind  of ran out of gas.&#8221;&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.pugetsound.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=uofyXOJsZ0mHJum9axC1Zivul0hjkc9IrWpUiXgcoMvBdRdNRYZZZZh75bJPZ1xB--_FuK2xETg.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.npr.org%2f2012%2f11%2f01%2f163949969%2freading-125-titles-a-year-thats-one-for-the-books%3fsc%3d17%26f%3d1008\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; by NPR Staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR Article &#8211; November 1, 2012 Joe Queenan reads so many books, it&#8217;s amazing that he can also find time to write them. Queenan estimates he&#8217;s read between 6,000 and 7,000 books total, at a rate of about 125 books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/reading-125-titles-a-year-thats-one-for-the-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}