{"id":4890,"date":"2017-08-09T17:44:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T21:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2021-10-27T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T18:04:31","slug":"fortress-of-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/read-watched-tapped\/book\/fortress-of-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortress of Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2017\/07\/21\/the-death-of-reading-is-threatening-the-soul\/\">The death of reading is threatening the soul<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\n  \u201cOnce I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>\n  When asked about his secret to success, Warren Buffett pointed to a stack of books and said, \u201cRead 500 pages like this every day. That\u2019s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will\u2026\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Modern culture presents formidable obstacles to the nurture of both spirituality and creativity. As a writer of faith in the age of social media, I host a Facebook page and a website and write an occasional blog. Thirty years ago I got a lot of letters from readers, and they did not expect an answer for a week or more. Now I get emails, and if they don\u2019t hear back in two days they write again, \u201cDid you get my email?\u201d The tyranny of the urgent crowds in around me.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I\u2019m still working on that fortress of habit, trying to resurrect the rich nourishment that reading has long provided for me. If only I can resist clicking on the link 30 Amish Facts That\u2019ll Make Your Skin Crawl\u2026\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortress of Habit is a wonderful turn of phrase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of reading is threatening the soul \u201cOnce I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.\u201d When asked about his secret to success, Warren Buffett pointed to a stack of books and said, \u201cRead 500 pages like this every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Fortress of Habit","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1233],"tags":[65,1198,188],"class_list":["post-4890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","tag-books","tag-fortress-of-habit","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4892,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}