{"id":97,"date":"2016-04-12T21:39:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2016-04-12T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:39:21","slug":"bookswormsarebadass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"#bookswormsarebadass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bookworm-things-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"bookworm things\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bookworm-things-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bookworm-things.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mary over at Books And Cookies on tumblr <a href=\"http:\/\/books-and-cookies.tumblr.com\/post\/142626611595\/bookworms-are-badass\">made a post<\/a> that I thought was pretty cool and thought provoking. She was asking booklrs about the most badass bookworm things they had done. Some talked about managing to get authors to do book signings, or befriending them. Others talked about making book fandom related craftwork.<\/p>\n<p>I put together a shortlist of things that I am proud of, as a bookworm. They might not necessarily be the most &#8220;badass&#8221; things a bookworm could do, but they definitely qualify as an extreme example of bookworms.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting, in no particular order, my list of &#8220;badass&#8221; bookworm things I have done.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading my cousins\u2019 literature text for them because I was bored. (Note: I was in the year below them and at this time I wasn\u2019t even studying english lit yet.)<\/li>\n<li>Getting caught reading under my desk in class and getting into trouble for it, and being moved to the front of the class. Tbh, I read a lot in class when I should have been paying attention\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Literally walking around my middle and high schools with my nose buried in a book &#8211; up and down staircases too! &#8211; and managing to only trip when I didn\u2019t have a book. (My friends were so amused?? Lol.)<\/li>\n<li>Reading 3 books in one day because I just could. not. stop.<\/li>\n<li>Reading my younger sister\u2019s literature text for her because she was never as fond of literature as I was &#8211; and helping her score an A!<\/li>\n<li>Slowly converting the people around me into readers &#8211; including family members that used to tease me for being a bookworm!<\/li>\n<li>Idk if this classifies as a \u201cbadass\u201d thing but I\u2019m super proud of it looking back now but my cousins used to tease me that being called a bookworm wasn\u2019t enough because I didn\u2019t just read books, I <em><strong>devoured<\/strong><\/em> them, so they started calling me a book anaconda. At the time, I\u2019ll admit, I used to get annoyed because they weren\u2019t being flattering about it at all. But now? Hell yeah, I\u2019m a book anaconda!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are some of the things you have done that you think represent <strong>#bookwormsarebadass<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-98\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/signoff-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"2016-04-12 11:46\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/signoff-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/signoff-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/signoff-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/signoff-1200x592.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary over at Books And Cookies on tumblr made a post that I thought was pretty cool and thought provoking. She was asking booklrs about the most badass bookworm things they had done. Some talked about managing to get authors to do book signings, or befriending them. Others talked about making book fandom related craftwork. I put together a shortlist of things that I am proud of, as a bookworm. They might not necessarily be the most &#8220;badass&#8221; things a bookworm could do, but they definitely qualify as an extreme example of bookworms. Presenting, in no particular order, my list of &#8220;badass&#8221; bookworm things I have done. Reading my cousins\u2019 literature text for them because I was bored. (Note: I was in the year below them and at this time I wasn\u2019t even studying english lit yet.) Getting caught reading under my desk in class and getting into trouble for it, and being moved to the front of the class. Tbh, I read a lot in class when I should have been paying attention\u2026 Literally walking around my middle and high schools with my nose buried in a book &#8211; up and down staircases too! &#8211; and managing to only trip when I didn\u2019t have a book. (My friends were so amused?? Lol.) Reading 3 books in one day because I just could. not. stop. Reading my younger sister\u2019s literature text for her because she was never as fond of literature as I was &#8211; and helping her score an A! Slowly converting the people around me into readers &#8211; including family members that used to tease me for being a bookworm! Idk if this classifies as a \u201cbadass\u201d thing but I\u2019m super proud of it looking back now but my cousins used to tease me that being called a bookworm wasn\u2019t enough because I didn\u2019t just read books, I devoured them, so they started calling me a book anaconda. At the time, I\u2019ll admit, I used to get annoyed because they weren\u2019t being flattering about it at all. But now? Hell yeah, I\u2019m a book anaconda! What are some of the things you have done that you think represent #bookwormsarebadass?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[66,65,64,59],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-post","tag-bookworm-things","tag-bookwormsarebadass","tag-discussion","tag-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}