{"id":8153,"date":"2014-12-24T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/24\/in-iceland-books-are-exchanged-on-christmas-eve\/"},"modified":"2014-12-24T22:03:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:03:05","slug":"in-iceland-books-are-exchanged-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/24\/in-iceland-books-are-exchanged-on-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In Iceland, books are exchanged on Christmas Eve, and you spend the rest of the night reading. People generally take their books to bed along with some chocolate. How cozy and wonderful does that sound?<\/p>\n<p>(More fun facts: Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country, and new books are typically published only during the Christmas season\u2014the frenzy is called J\u00f3lab\u00f3kafl\u00f3\u00f0, or the Christmas Book Flood.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ffordefans.tumblr.com\/\">ffordefans<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I think I found a new tradition\u2026<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tothelibrary.tumblr.com\/\">tothelibrary<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Iceland, books are exchanged on Christmas Eve, and you spend the rest of the night reading. People generally take their books to bed along with some chocolate. How cozy and wonderful does that sound? (More fun facts: Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country, and new books are typically published only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/24\/in-iceland-books-are-exchanged-on-christmas-eve\/\" 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":[4481,369,4482,1069],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asdfgjkl","tag-christmas","tag-iceland","tag-reading","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","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=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}