{"id":734,"date":"2005-01-25T19:11:01","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T19:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=734"},"modified":"2005-01-25T19:11:01","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T19:11:01","slug":"clubbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Clubbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve often considered joining a book club, but something has always held me back. This article<\/a> from local magazine The Rake expresses some of my misgivings. I don’t want to join a club where people discuss the book for fifteen minutes and then talk about familial goings-on for the rest of the meeting. I don’t want to join a club that assigns something from the Left Behind series or simply apes whatever Oprah is reading. And I don’t want to be the only guy in a group of women. On second thought, that might be okay under certain circumstances. In short, I guess I want it to be like one of my seminar classes in college. But I know that I’m not likely to find something like that in the real world. Maybe I should just quit my job and go back to grad school for my Ph.D. in English. Actually, I almost did that during a particularly dark and frustrating period in law school. There are times when I’m really nostalgic for the academic life. But having a regular paycheck is also kind of nice.
\nMaybe I should start my own book club. It will have a membership of one, thus ensuring that the meetings are always in accessible locations and that the books are ones I want to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve often considered joining a book club, but something has always held me back. This article from local magazine The Rake expresses some of my misgivings. I don’t want to join a club where people discuss the book for fifteen minutes and then talk about familial goings-on for the rest of the meeting. I don’t […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-clubbing","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}