{"id":1171,"date":"2022-12-23T18:16:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T18:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2024-08-10T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T21:42:44","slug":"essay-project-status-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/2022\/12\/23\/essay-project-status-250\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay Project Status: 250"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-purple-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Friday, 23 December 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the most recent &#8216;essay chat&#8217; with CT, the question came up of how many essays we&#8217;ve read. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By my count, which I&#8217;m sure is not entirely accurate, we&#8217;ve just finished our 250th essay. We skipped around in The Great English essays collection, and I may have failed to weed out some duplicates in counting essays in those books the we read unselectively, but I think this is pretty close.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has been over a period of, I believe, about a year and a half: we started in the Fall of 2021 if I&#8217;m correct. The counts, should you be interested:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0112    The Oxford Book of Essays<br>    24 \u00a0 \u00a0Best American Essays of 2020<br>\u00a0   58 \u00a0 \u00a0Best American Essays of the 2Oth Century<br>\u00a0   10 \u00a0 \u00a0&lt;Our own selections> <br>            (CT: 5 by Chesterton; TE: Baker, Carroll, Freeman, Sacks, Woolf et al)<br>\u00a0   20 \u00a0 \u00a0Great English Essays (selected essays)<br>\u00a0   32 \u00a0 \u00a0The Golden Age (excluding duplicates,\u00a0<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 but including the 6 we still have to read)<br>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br>256 \u00a0 \u00a0Total, including the 6 we still have to read\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Views: 3<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, 23 December 2022 During the most recent &#8216;essay chat&#8217; with CT, the question came up of how many essays we&#8217;ve read. Views: 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily_entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}