{"id":8712,"date":"2008-12-13T09:35:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8712"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:08:10","slug":"a-book-of-days-for-1931-december-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8712","title":{"rendered":"December 13: &#8220;his own unwillingness to go into solitude&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from Christopher Morley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00086DZDU?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00086DZDU\"><i>A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure<\/i><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00086DZDU\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DECEMBER 13, SUN.  1931<\/p>\n<p>He was unwilling that I should leave him; and when I looked at my watch, and told him it was twelve o&#8217;clock, he cried &#8220;What&#8217;s that to you and me?&#8221; and ordered Frank to tell Mrs. Williams that we were coming to drink tea with her, which we did &#8230; he every night drank tea with her, however late it might be, and she always sat up for him.  This was not alone a proof of his regard for <i>her<\/i>, but of his own unwillingness to go into solitude, before that unseasonable hour at which he had habituated himself to expect the oblivion of repose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; BOSWELL, <i>Life of Johnson<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See why I love this Book of Days?  This ain&#8217;t no &#8220;if you love something set it free&#8221; compilation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from Christopher Morley&#8217;s A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure: DECEMBER 13, SUN. 1931 He was unwilling that I should leave him; and when I looked at my watch, and told him it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8712\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1910],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712"}],"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=8712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72538,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions\/72538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}