{"id":3696,"date":"2014-06-11T07:56:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T11:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:04:12","slug":"what-i-am-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/what-i-am-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"What I am reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading two books just now: &nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0670025712\/ref=oh_details_o02_s01_i04?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darwin, Portrait of a Genius<\/a><\/em>&nbsp; by Paul Johnson, and&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0872203042\/ref=oh_details_o02_s01_i01?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guide to Aesthetics<\/a><\/em>&nbsp; by&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Benedetto Croce. I&rsquo;ve always enjoyed Johnson&rsquo;s work and this book is no exception. My only complaint is that it&rsquo;s too short. Croce is primarily a philosopher of aesthetics. Both highly recommended. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading two books just now: &nbsp;Darwin, Portrait of a Genius&nbsp; by Paul Johnson, and&nbsp;Guide to Aesthetics&nbsp; by&nbsp;Benedetto Croce. I&rsquo;ve always enjoyed Johnson&rsquo;s work and this book is no exception. My only complaint is that it&rsquo;s too short. Croce is primarily a philosopher of aesthetics. Both highly recommended. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[139,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-bio","category-books","post_format-post-format-status"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12349,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/good-art-books-david-to-delacroix-the-rise-of-romantic-mythology\/","url_meta":{"origin":3696,"position":0},"title":"Good art books: David to Delacroix, The Rise of Romantic Mythology","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 7, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Dorothy Johnson has written several books related to David and the Neoclassicists. 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