{"id":300,"date":"2014-01-24T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/24\/to-finish-or-not-to-finish\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:17:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:17:32","slug":"to-finish-or-not-to-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/to-finish-or-not-to-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"To Finish or Not to Finish&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you finish reading a book that is obviously not your kind of book? I usually do &#8211; it is though I have entered into some kind a weird contract with the book, <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-o3Grqn7m5Hg\/UuJCF_6t_aI\/AAAAAAAABIs\/AwjuOxMVaDU\/s1600\/images.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-o3Grqn7m5Hg\/UuJCF_6t_aI\/AAAAAAAABIs\/AwjuOxMVaDU\/s1600\/images.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>and then I think that I would feel as though I was letting down the book, the author and myself by not finishing it. That said, over the years, there have been a handful of books that I have not finished (and I am sure that neither the books nor the authors have held it against me, at least I hope not). I am fairly careful selecting the books I read, so I usually don&#8217;t end up in the situation of wondering whether or not I should throw the book out through the window or leave it on a park bench for some unsuspecting passerby. But sometimes I can be disappointed, and then the question is: to finish or not to finish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you finish reading a book that is obviously not your kind of book? I usually do &#8211; it is though I have entered into some kind a weird contract with the book, and then I think that I would feel as though I was letting down the book, the author and myself by not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/to-finish-or-not-to-finish\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}