{"id":93,"date":"2026-10-13T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/a-short-guide-to-giving-books\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:15:49","slug":"a-short-guide-to-giving-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/a-short-guide-to-giving-books\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short Guide to Giving Books as Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A book is one of the most personal gifts you can give. It says: I thought about you, and I thought about what you might like to think about. Here is how we help people choose.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Start with the last book they loved<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not their favorite genre: their last great read. A reader who loved a slow family saga may well love a slow seafaring one.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Consider the edition<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hardcover feels like an occasion; a paperback slips into a coat pocket. For readers who travel, an ebook or audiobook edition might be the most useful choice of all.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Write something inside<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A date, a line about why you chose it, your name. Years from now, that inscription may be the part they treasure most.<\/p><p class=\"fo-demo-note wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A demo article for the Foliowick theme. The books mentioned are fictional.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to choose a book for someone else, and what to write on the first page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}