{"id":3341,"date":"2012-02-24T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2012-02-24T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T14:00:29","slug":"the-books-that-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/3341-the-books-that-made-it.html","title":{"rendered":"The Books That Made It"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3342\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3342 \" style=\"border: 0pt none;margin-top: 0px;margin-left: 1em;margin-bottom: 1em\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpressmu-122967-351695.cloudwaysapps.com\/robertpeake\/files\/2012\/02\/flying-books-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2012\/02\/flying-books-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2012\/02\/flying-books-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2012\/02\/flying-books.png 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Erik Fitzpatrick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A native Californian, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/2446-london-calling.html\">relocated to London<\/a> with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valeriekampmeier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">English wife<\/a> last spring. Since it costs as much or more to ship a book that distance as it does to buy one new, we downsized considerably. I wrote a brief summary on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wewantedtobewriters.com\/2012\/02\/books-by-robert-peakes-bed\/\" target=\"_blank\">We Wanted to be Writers<\/a> blog of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wewantedtobewriters.com\/2012\/02\/books-by-robert-peakes-bed\/\" target=\"_blank\">those precious few books that made the trip, and why<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wewantedtobewriters.com\/2012\/02\/books-by-robert-peakes-bed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more at the We Wanted to be Writers blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A native Californian, I relocated to London with my English wife last spring. Since it costs as much or more to ship a book that distance as it does to buy one new, we downsized considerably. I wrote a brief summary on the We Wanted to be Writers blog of the those precious few books &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/3341-the-books-that-made-it.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Books That Made It<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1268,5],"tags":[317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}