{"id":6490,"date":"2022-10-19T01:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:48","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6490","title":{"rendered":"BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the new Information Age, where we have all-day access to the ruminations of hundreds of people on social media and where an algorithm suggests various articles, videos, and podcasts on a myriad topics, I find I like and appreciate books more and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Especially books on paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can sit with my book and my pen, underlining and commenting as much or as little as I like.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the beauty of these comments I write in the margins of my books? They are solely meant for my own betterment. Not to one-up complete strangers.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But here&#8217;s what I am most appreciating about books these days: They quietly take their time to develop a small set of thoughts. The depth of a good book is something that can never fit inside a Twitter soundbite, a clickbait article, or a life update on Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In comparison to books, the stuff I read online is so scattershot. And, in the long run, amounts to little more than mental noise.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And who needs extra mental noise these days?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(I hope that if <b><i>my <\/i><\/b>blogposts are noise, they are at least thoughtful, encouraging, and upward-focused noise!)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the new Information Age, where we have all-day access to the ruminations of hundreds of people on social media and where an algorithm suggests various articles, videos, and podcasts on a myriad topics, I find I like and appreciate books more and more.\u00a0 Especially books on paper.\u00a0 I can sit with my book and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}