{"id":12396,"date":"2025-06-22T16:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/?p=12396"},"modified":"2025-06-22T16:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T16:17:45","slug":"a-book-store-is-a-place-where-you-can-lose-your-innocence-without-losing-your-virginity-germaine-greer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/22\/a-book-store-is-a-place-where-you-can-lose-your-innocence-without-losing-your-virginity-germaine-greer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA book store is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.\u201d\u2013 Germaine Greer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almost every time I go into NYC, a quirky hole-in-the-wall bookstore just calls my name. The on-sale display outside is like a beacon, a calling I can\u2019t control. So, instead of fighting it, I go inside to buy one book. One book turns into one too many. Then, I am stuck with a huge (and overpriced) totebag of books, lugging them all over Manhattan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it\u2019s not like there is just one bookstore stealing my time and space. Go to Midtown, there\u2019s an amazing bookstore. Union Square, tens of thousands of $1 books sitting outside on a rack, drawing you in. No matter where I go, I always end up buying a book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, why oh why must New York City have the best bookstores known to man? Is it too much to ask to have a mediocre bookstore, with only one or two books that are in the slightest bit appealing. My shoulder\u2013 and my wallet\u2013 can no longer handle the new collection of books I have after returning from a day in the city.<br>Jensen L<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every time I go into NYC, a quirky hole-in-the-wall bookstore just calls my name. The on-sale display outside is like a beacon, a calling I can\u2019t control. So, instead of fighting it, I go inside to buy one book. One book turns into one too many. Then, I am stuck with a huge (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12398,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12396\/revisions\/12398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}