{"id":2156,"date":"2008-12-09T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2008-12-09T13:47:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T20:47:18","slug":"damn-you-thomas-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/09\/damn-you-thomas-jefferson\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn You Thomas Jefferson!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I added my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog\/dabacon\">library<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">librarything.com<\/a>.  In adding this books I tagged my books with various keywords.  As you can imagine there were a lot tagged as &#8220;physics.&#8221;  Indeed when I entered the books there were only a few people who had a comparable number of physics tags, among them a user called lasermazer.  Recently I checked in, and damnit, there is now a library that has a lot more physics tags books:<br \/>\nYes that is <em>the<\/em> Thomas Jefferson!  A cool feature of library thing are &#8220;legacy libraries&#8221; where you can compare your overlap with other historic libraries.  But wait.  Thomas Jefferson is cheating.  I mean I don&#8217;t have a copy of &#8220;Advice to shepherds and owners of flocks on the care and management of sheep&#8221;, which is tagged &#8220;Physics&#8221; but it seems to me that this book is most probably not about physicists (managing physicists is not like managing sheep, it&#8217;s like managing <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/catdynamics\/\">cats<\/a>.)<br \/>\nThe books I share with Thomas Jefferson are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>L&#8217;eloge de la folie<\/em> by Desiderius Erasmus<br \/>\n<em>The meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus<\/em> by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius<br \/>\n<em>The plays of William Shakspeare : in ten volumes : with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators<\/em> by William Shakespeare<br \/>\n<em>Titi Lucretii Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex<\/em> by Titus Lucretius Carus<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I added my library to librarything.com. In adding this books I tagged my books with various keywords. As you can imagine there were a lot tagged as &#8220;physics.&#8221; Indeed when I entered the books there were only a few people who had a comparable number of physics tags, among them a user &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/09\/damn-you-thomas-jefferson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Damn You Thomas Jefferson!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read-you-tweed","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}