{"id":1201,"date":"2012-02-23T17:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2012-02-23T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:30:35","slug":"the-oldest-book-on-my-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/the-oldest-book-on-my-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"The oldest book on my shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1202\" title=\"oldest book\" src=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oldest-book-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oldest-book-193x300.jpg 193w, http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oldest-book-658x1024.jpg 658w, http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/oldest-book.jpg 953w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 85vw, 193px\" \/>The oldest book on my shelves is a French gospel of Luke. It is dated 1697. I think it is a Roman Catholic translation, with both latin and French in two columns, and comments from the church fathers. Inside the cover is a handwritten note with my grandfather&#8217;s name, Paris, 1929. I suppose that&#8217;s when he bought it, when he was living in Paris as a young man (he was 20 years old).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest book on my shelves is a French gospel of Luke. It is dated 1697. I think it is a Roman Catholic translation, with both latin and French in two columns, and comments from the church fathers. Inside the cover is a handwritten note with my grandfather&#8217;s name, Paris, 1929. I suppose that&#8217;s when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/the-oldest-book-on-my-shelves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The oldest book on my shelves&#8221;<\/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":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}