{"id":1372,"date":"2010-08-17T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:02","slug":"in-my-day-we-read-books-on-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"In My Day, We Actually Read the Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just cruising by to bring you a link to another artist using recycled\/reclaimed books as a sculpting medium (you probably already know how much I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisintothat.com\/\">This Into That<\/a>). Via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kirstinbutler\">Kirstin Butler&#8217;s twitterfeed<\/a> comes the <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/2010\/08\/17\/living-garden-of-knowledge-made-from-40000-books\/\">Jardin de la Connaissance<\/a>, &#8220;a unique outdoor library that features living books sown with several varieties of mushrooms&#8221; at the 11th International Garden Festival in M\u00e9tis, Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly&#8211;I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about it, especially the open books being used as &#8220;cushioned carpets.&#8221; There&#8217;s this part of me that&#8217;s viscerally disturbed at book abuse (which is ironic, since I&#8217;ve used books in art projects myself). But here&#8211;judge for yourself:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/2010\/08\/17\/living-garden-of-knowledge-made-from-40000-books\/\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Jardin-de-la-Connaissance.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just cruising by to bring you a link to another artist using recycled\/reclaimed books as a sculpting medium (you probably already know how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,15,10],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}