{"id":131,"date":"2015-07-05T21:29:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2015-07-06T00:22:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T23:22:05","slug":"about-the-reviewer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/about-the-reviewer\/","title":{"rendered":"About Maybe The Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Maybe The Point<\/strong> was founded in July 2015 as a place for the reviewer, one Matthew Darby, to house his book reviews. It&#8217;s a very new site, so only time will tell how the Internet reacts to such a revolutionary idea.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Acknowledgements<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book cover images are from the fantastic\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goodreads.com\">Goodreads<\/a>, who fetch them from goodness knows where.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This blog is powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>, and hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zen.co.uk\/\">Zen Internet<\/a>. It uses the gorgeous <a href=\"https:\/\/scotthsmith.com\/projects\/decode\/\">Decode<\/a> theme by Scott Smith, modified lightly to suit this blog. It uses a lovely papery background from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/subtlepatterns.com\">Subtlepatterns.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Reviewer<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"su-frame su-frame-align-center su-frame-style-default\"><span class=\"su-frame-inner\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/placeholder.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-46\" src=\"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/placeholder-245x300.png\" alt=\"The Fabulous Author\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/placeholder-245x300.png 245w, http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/placeholder.png 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>\nMatthew Darby is growing old. He doesn&#8217;t know why this happens. There&#8217;s far too much to do, and it would take time away from his schedule to investigate such mundane matters. So without understanding why, he continues to waste away. With a book in one hand and an Old Fashioned in the other, he reclines on the sofa, stretching his full form across the cushions. This aggravates his room-mate, as he is also on the sofa. After a brief struggle, Matthew skulks out away to his room with an empty glass and heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A software engineer by trade, Matthew never understood art. At least, until the critics reclassified video games as art. Then he became a veritable\u00a0Baudelaire. After years of education and writing code, he re-discovered his love of reading on long, boring journeys. Fortunately, life has given him an unlimited supply of such trips. After a couple of months of reading a few books weekly, Matthew decided that other people\u00a0<em>need<\/em> to know what he thinks about books. Unfortunately, that meant writing a bio page on a blog. Would it be worth it? Only time would tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe The Point was founded in July 2015 as a place for the reviewer, one Matthew Darby, to house his book reviews. It&#8217;s a very new site, so only time will tell how the Internet reacts to such a revolutionary idea. Acknowledgements The book cover images are from the fantastic\u00a0Goodreads, who fetch them from goodness <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/about-the-reviewer\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maybethepoint.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}