{"id":16885,"date":"2020-09-06T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=16885"},"modified":"2020-08-01T22:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T05:29:02","slug":"read-a-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/read-a-book-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Read A Book Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reading is as important as writing.<\/p>\n

Read everything.<\/p>\n

The variety of books I am usually reading at one time says a lot about me!\u00a0 If you have a Goodreads<\/a> account – you should follow me to see my many views on Roman History to Star Wars to LA Noir to Alexander the Great.<\/p>\n

And well if you’re looking for something to read and haven’t picked up my books *grins innocently* go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading is as important as writing. Read everything. The variety of books I am usually reading at one time says a lot about me!\u00a0 If you have a Goodreads account – you should follow me to see my many views on Roman History to Star Wars to LA Noir to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[890,825],"class_list":["post-16885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-day","tag-goodreads","tag-national-day"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Da1M-4ol","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13332,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/how-to-help-an-author-leave-a-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":16885,"position":0},"title":"How to Help an Author: Leave a Review","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"February 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw this on Charles Delint's Facebook page and it's so very true. 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