{"id":380,"date":"2025-12-06T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2025-12-06T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:00:55","slug":"raised-by-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/06\/raised-by-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Raised by books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you\u2019re an artist (in whatever media), what book from childhood shaped your art? For me it would be two, one forced on me and one chosen: the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/King_James_Version\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">King James Bible<\/a>, and Charles Finger\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tales_from_Silver_Lands\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tales from Silver Lands<\/a><\/em>. I have quarrels with both now, but they made my writing what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What book from childhood shaped your art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[43,26,25,23],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-writing","tag-art","tag-books","tag-reading","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}