{"id":1952,"date":"2009-04-21T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2009-09-22T19:38:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T03:38:30","slug":"buried-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/offbeat\/buried-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Buried in Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"coffin bookshelves\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-09\/coffin-shelves.jpg\" alt=\"coffin bookshelves\" width=\"435\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who says you can&#8217;t take it with you? Well, you might have to leave your books behind, but at least you no longer need to be separated from your bookshelves, thanks to <a title=\"warren bookshelves\" href=\"http:\/\/www.londonmet.ac.uk\/jcamd\/research\/rae-2008\/william-warren\/portfolio_outcome04.cfm\">William Warren&#8217;s &#8220;Shelves For Life<\/a>.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The shelves are meant to last a lifetime. But they don&#8217;t stop there. They keep on going right with you on that final chthonian journey. The shelves are made to your own measurements, and they convert to a coffin upon your demise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"coffin bookshelves\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-09\/coffin-shelves-2.jpg\" alt=\"coffin bookshelves\" width=\"435\" height=\"528\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Warren, &#8220;The aim is to make stronger emotional relationships with our belongings and encourage life-long use.&#8221; That&#8217;s tongue in cheek, right? Right?<\/p>\n<p><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>via <a title=\"book patrol\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpatrol.net\/2009\/04\/bookshelves-to-die-in.html\">Book Patrol<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"coffin bookshelves\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-09\/coffin-shelves.jpg\" alt=\"coffin bookshelves\" width=\"435\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who says you can&#8217;t take it with you? Well, you might have to leave your books behind, but at least you no longer need to be separated from your bookshelves, thanks to <a title=\"warren bookshelves\" href=\"http:\/\/www.londonmet.ac.uk\/jcamd\/research\/rae-2008\/william-warren\/portfolio_outcome04.cfm\">William Warren&#8217;s &#8220;Shelves For Life<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[35,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}