{"id":2898,"date":"2018-07-19T00:23:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2018-07-19T00:23:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:53:13","slug":"why-am-i-giving-away-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/19\/why-am-i-giving-away-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I giving away books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am writing this blog after a while. I should get <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over my laziness and start writing regularly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have been giving away books to my friends over a last few years. Why am I distributing books these books?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Am I crazy?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Do I have an evil plan?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the books I have been giving away are: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meditations, Marcus Aurelius<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think on these things, J Krishnamurti<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reading is one key habit that I have picked up in the last few years. During tough days these books were my good companion. They helped me calm down and brought me closer to a better life. That is why I distributed copies of these books to many of my friends. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I remember an incident when someone rejected accepting a book. I wanted to thank him for his intermittent fasting podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of my friends liked this idea so much that even they have started giving away books to their loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Should I continue doing this or stop it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2899\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bank.jpg 700w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bank-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/bank-260x195.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this blog after a while. I should get over my laziness and start writing regularly. I have been giving away books to my friends over a last few years. Why am I distributing books these books? Am I crazy? Do I have an evil plan? Some of the books I have been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/19\/why-am-i-giving-away-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why am I giving away books?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[268],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}