{"id":7094,"date":"2014-07-31T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=7094"},"modified":"2014-07-30T10:39:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:39:54","slug":"even-more-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/even-more-summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Even More Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7096\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/holmesbookmirroredit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7096\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7096\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/holmesbookmirroredit-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Complete Sherlock Holmes&quot; by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/holmesbookmirroredit-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/holmesbookmirroredit-1024x979.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/holmesbookmirroredit-600x574.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/holmesbookmirroredit.jpg 2032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Complete Sherlock Holmes&#8221; by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When I graduated from high school, my parents\u00a0gave me a very nice graduation party. \u00a0Friends and relatives arrived and I received a lot of nice gifts and good wishes.<\/p>\n<p>One gift stood out, though. \u00a0Keresztapa (my mother&#8217;s Godfather. \u00a0Keresztapa means Godfather in Hungarian) gave me the complete set of Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. \u00a0Keresztapa explained that when he first arrived in America, these were the books he read that helped him learn the English language.<\/p>\n<p>This was a wonderful gift! I devoured the books loving\u00a0each and every story! \u00a0And, as you can see from the picture at left, I still have the books in my collection. \u00a0And I still revisit these stories either in the books I have on my shelf or simply by booting up my Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>If you own a Kindle, all these stories are free to download\u00a0on Project Gutenberg. \u00a0Many are available for free on amazon.com. \u00a0The entire collection can be purchased\u00a0for Kindle on amazon.com starting at .99.<\/p>\n<p>But, get a nice hardbound edition. \u00a0And, it makes a nice gift that the receipient will treasure for a long time. Trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I graduated from high school, my parents\u00a0gave me a very nice graduation party. \u00a0Friends and relatives arrived and I received a lot of nice gifts and good wishes. One gift stood out, though. \u00a0Keresztapa (my mother&#8217;s Godfather. \u00a0Keresztapa means Godfather in Hungarian) gave me the complete set of Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur [&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":[171,1153,1151,1152,172,1147,1150],"class_list":["post-7094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-godfather","tag-graduation-gift","tag-keresztapa","tag-reading","tag-sherlock-holmes","tag-summer-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7108,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions\/7108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}