{"id":25929,"date":"2012-09-04T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/09\/04\/when-i-left-high-school-i-had-all-my-plans-to-go\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:20:55","slug":"when-i-left-high-school-i-had-all-my-plans-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/09\/04\/when-i-left-high-school-i-had-all-my-plans-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I left high school, I had all my plans to go to college, but I had no money. And I decided then, the best thing for me to do is not worry about getting money to go to college \u2014 I will educate myself. I walked down the street, I walked into a library, I would go to the library three days a week for ten years and I would educate myself. It\u2019s all FREE, that\u2019s the great thing about libraries! Most of you can afford to go to college, but if you wanna educate yourself completely, go to the library and educate yourself. When I was 28 years old, I graduated from Library.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/04\/ray-bradbury-comic-con-interview\/\">Ray Bradbury on libraries and educating yourself<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I left high school, I had all my plans to go to college, but I had no money. And I decided then, the best thing for me to do is not worry about getting money to go to college \u2014 I will educate myself. I walked down the street, I walked into a library, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/09\/04\/when-i-left-high-school-i-had-all-my-plans-to-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[625,2313,8275],"class_list":["post-25929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hero","tag-ray-bradbury","tag-that-last-sentence-though","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}