{"id":1592,"date":"2011-07-06T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/2011\/07\/06\/reading-room-a-mini-briefing\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:50:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:50:05","slug":"reading-room-a-mini-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/reading-room-a-mini-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"reading room (a mini-briefing)"},"content":{"rendered":"

At this very moment, my sole mission is to stay focused on enjoying every second, minute, hour and day of Summer 2011. With that said, I should also admit that I feel just awful about my much-to-be-desired blogging schedule, but honestly, I’ve been a busy – living, tanning, outdoor dining, traveling (a bit), teaching my friend’s kids the fine (though, utterly ridiculous!) art of planking<\/a>, connecting with folks from yesteryear while mourning the loss of a dear, family friend and as per my usual, trying to make sense of it all. Note to self: the latter is clearly<\/span> going to take longer than three, summer months to figure out!<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve cleared my conscience, I must make mention of my new, favorite book, of which I’ve just turned the last page about two hours ago. Exquisitely-written by Tayari Jones<\/a>, Silver Sparrow<\/span> explores the murky, mysterious world of family secrets. Bottom line, nobody ever really wins, but you’ve got to read it for yourself. I couldn’t put the book down. Hopefully, you’ll feel the same way.<\/p>\n

Shamefully, I’ll admit that I’ve still not caught up with all of my Maya Angelou, which was my Summer 2010<\/span> promise to myself. But it’s only the first week of July, so I’ve still got some time to get up to speed on her collection, right? Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At this very moment, my sole mission is to stay focused on enjoying every second, minute, hour and day of Summer 2011. With that said, I should also admit that I feel just awful about my much-to-be-desired blogging schedule, but honestly, I’ve been a busy – living, tanning, outdoor dining, traveling (a bit), teaching my… Read More »reading room (a mini-briefing)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}