{"id":2082,"date":"2023-06-07T23:34:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T23:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colombo.ca\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2023-06-08T01:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T01:11:33","slug":"notebook-six-occasional-writings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/?p=2082","title":{"rendered":"Notebook Six: Occasional Writings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Notebook Six: Occasional Writings<\/strong>&nbsp;consists of those 500 prose texts that were not included in&nbsp;<em>The Notebooks of John Robert Colombo<\/em>, the general title of the uniform set of five volumes issued in the Summer of 2018 that collected Colombo\u2019s blogs, blurbs, interviews, questions and answers, notations, essays,&nbsp;<em>r\u00e9cits<\/em>, letters, literary materials, etc. These were composed between 1957 and 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"776\" src=\"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/nb6-web-front-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/nb6-web-front-cover.jpg 600w, https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/nb6-web-front-cover-300x388.jpg 300w, https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/nb6-web-front-cover-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/colombo.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/nb6-web-front-cover-116x150.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Notebook Six\u00a0<\/strong>appears not as a book but as a fully searchable PDF. <br>Cover design by Bill Andersen. ISBN-10 1894540-25-5. Colombo &amp; Company, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The present volume, being issued in 2023, exceeds 200,000 words in length, and includes texts that were over overlooked in the original selection process or were more recently completed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo call John Robert prolific would be a serious understatement.\u201d <br>\u2013 Moses Znaimer, broadcaster and host, introducing JRC\u2019s 2002 ideaCity address titled \u201cTalking Canada and Why We Should Preserve Our Heritage of Eloquence and Wisdom.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notebook Six: Occasional Writings&nbsp;consists of those 500 prose texts that were not included in&nbsp;The Notebooks of John Robert Colombo, the general title of the uniform set of five volumes issued in the Summer of 2018 that collected Colombo\u2019s blogs, blurbs, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/?p=2082\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentaries","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}