{"id":4528,"date":"2011-06-10T12:25:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T11:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2011-11-24T13:28:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T12:28:34","slug":"diffusion-archive-highlight-three-essays-by-samuel-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/diffusion-archive-highlight-three-essays-by-samuel-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Diffusion Archive Highlight: Three Essays by Samuel Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <\/em>Selected by writer and journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebillblog.com\/billblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Thompson<\/a>, this eBook compiles three of Samuel Johnson&#8217;s essays in a slim, portable format<em>; Rambler 2<\/em>, pondering the nature of ambition and self-deception, <em>Idler 48<\/em>, in which he speaks of\u00a0 how we \u2018play throughout life with the shadows of business\u2019, and <em>Adventurer 95<\/em>, exploring the process of writing and original ideas. As Bill says, &#8220;They are the perfect refuge from the blogosphere and, since they require  no external power, excellent for those long journeys when your laptop  battery dies before you reach your destination and the only discarded  newspaper to hand is yesterday\u2019s Daily Express.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=309\" target=\"_blank\">Three Essays<\/a> <\/em>on Diffusion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/proboscis\/5818020478\/in\/photostream\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3448\/5818020478_f1995d4106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected by writer and journalist Bill Thompson, this eBook compiles three of Samuel Johnson&#8217;s essays in a slim, portable format; Rambler 2, pondering the nature of ambition and self-deception, Idler 48, in which he speaks of\u00a0 how we \u2018play throughout life with the shadows of business\u2019, and Adventurer 95, exploring the process of writing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5,79,17,166,65],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-bookleteer","tag-diffusion","tag-ebooks","tag-inspiring-uses","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}