{"id":7281,"date":"2015-05-18T09:47:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=7281"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:56:18","slug":"house-of-twenty-thousand-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/house-of-twenty-thousand-books\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Twenty Thousand Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/05\/20000Books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7284\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2015\/05\/20000Books.jpg\" alt=\"20000Books\" width=\"252\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><em>There is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ?<br \/>\n<\/em>~Ralph Waldo Emerson in \u201cAddress at the Opening of Concord Free Public Library\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was having dinner last week with a neighbor who, with his team, recently had a meeting with Bill Gates to discuss their project within the Gates Foundation. One of the words he used to describe Gates was \u201cpolymath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He spoke of Gates as having an incredibly\u00a0deep knowledge in a wide variety of subject matter and how he can comprehend and discuss numerous topics at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>Chimen Abramsky also has the polymath gene\u00a0and in\u00a0<em>The House of Twenty Thousand Books<\/em> noted journalist, author and Abramsky\u2019s grandson, Sasha Abramsky,\u00a0gives us a moving and stimulating look at his grandfather and the books that surrounded and sustained his life.<\/p>\n<p>This is first and foremost a love story of\u00a0a man and his books.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more of the Book Patrol article: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookpatrol.net\/the-house-of-twenty-thousand-books\/\">House of Twenty Thousand Books<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson in \u201cAddress at the Opening of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/house-of-twenty-thousand-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":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281","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=7281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7281\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}