{"id":40886,"date":"2014-01-26T13:09:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T20:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/26\/new-habits-die-hard.html"},"modified":"2014-01-26T13:09:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T20:09:47","slug":"new-habits-die-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/26\/new-habits-die-hard.html","title":{"rendered":"New Habits Die Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">For the first time in a while, I&#39;m reading a book that is <i>actual bound pieces of paper.<\/i> Nearly all the reading I&#39;ve been doing of late has been on my Kindle or a tablet.<\/p>\n<p>Which probably explains why, as the book was propped up on the bureau while I was dressing, I very nearly tried to turn the page by tapping on it &#8230;\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-fbB7izSR1D0\/UuVrdR-cf3I\/AAAAAAAChZw\/XKeGwdaw2HE\/kindle-3-pearl-e-ink-vs-book.preview%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dQwvxdGRQvb' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in a while, I&#39;m reading a book that is actual bound pieces of paper. Nearly all the reading I&#39;ve been doing of late has been on my Kindle or a tablet. Which probably explains why, as the book was propped up on the bureau while I was dressing, I very nearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/26\/new-habits-die-hard.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Habits Die Hard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131406,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/02\/who-reads-what-on-what-platform.html","url_meta":{"origin":40886,"position":0},"title":"Who reads what on what platform?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Sep-16 7:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"So according to this, I'm an outlier in a variety of ways. 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