{"id":991,"date":"2011-06-29T20:44:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T01:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=991"},"modified":"2011-06-29T20:48:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T01:48:14","slug":"free-audio-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Free audio books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: Watson Road\u00a0 3.5 miles]<\/p>\n<p>I was searching around for some audio texts online to listen to on a long car ride.<\/p>\n<p>The best site I found was http:\/\/www.librivox.org\u00a0 They have\u00a0 a volunteer system where people can read a few chapters of a public domain text.\u00a0 Other volunteers compile the complete works which are then available for download in MP3 format.<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded <strong>Pride and Prejudice<\/strong> (which I had never read) and we have been listening to that on trips into town recently.\u00a0 I also have downloaded a couple of others which I will burn into CDs for later use.<\/p>\n<p>And, I signed up to be a reader. I have lots of projects already so maybe this will stick and maybe it won&#8217;t.\u00a0 But I thought I would try reading a couple of sections and see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>I should also note that I&#8217;m burning these onto CDs.\u00a0 If I had a more modern car with a fancy audio system I probably would just put them into an MP3 player or on a thumb drive.\u00a0 But my cars don&#8217;t have that capability.<\/p>\n<p>p.s.<\/p>\n<p>Today I got some help from a mailing list and solved my Apache problem from yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: Watson Road\u00a0 3.5 miles] I was searching around for some audio texts online to listen to on a long car ride. The best site I found was http:\/\/www.librivox.org\u00a0 They have\u00a0 a volunteer system where people can read a few chapters of a public domain text.\u00a0 Other volunteers compile the complete works which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}