{"id":8282,"date":"2008-07-31T13:29:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T17:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:59:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:59:32","slug":"the-book-inscriptions-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8282","title":{"rendered":"The Book Inscriptions Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve posted a link to this site before, but <a href=\"http:\/\/bookinscriptions.com\/\">here it is again<\/a>.  I love everything about it.  It makes me aware of the fragility of the moment, of our ties to one another, but it also is one of those wonderful sites that celebrate the evidence we leave behind.  I have a ton of books from my first boyfriend &#8211; and we would always leave notes of significance in the front pages.  These act as ghost-stories now &#8230; they almost seem written in code.  I&#8217;ve lost the key.  But at the time, they were potent.  I also love the images of the book covers.  I have bought books because of the inscriptions  (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5109\">this one <\/a>is probably my most treasured &#8211; mainly because it is the oldest) &#8211; but I love them all.  Fragments of relationships, gifts, private messages &#8230; captured in the first pages of a book, and now captured in the <a href=\"http:\/\/bookinscriptions.com\/\">Book Inscriptions Project<\/a>.  What also strikes me &#8211; when I flip through the archives, reading them all &#8211; is the generosity of everyone.  The need to <i>give<\/i> something to someone: &#8220;here, you might like this&#8221;, &#8220;read this and thought of you&#8221;, &#8220;this book reminded me of you &#8230;&#8221; Note after note after note.  It&#8217;s a really special site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve posted a link to this site before, but here it is again. I love everything about it. It makes me aware of the fragility of the moment, of our ties to one another, but it also is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8282\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[634,2485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181812,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions\/181812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}