{"id":203,"date":"2012-05-24T01:53:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T01:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2012-05-24T01:56:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T01:56:01","slug":"leave-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Leave a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer I was fortunate enough to take a vacation to Iceland.\u00a0 It was a magical place and if you ever have a chance to see it you must.\u00a0 One night we stayed at the Hotel Hellnar which is on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula.\u00a0 In the lobby was a bookcase with instructions to &#8220;Take a Book, Leave a Book.&#8221;\u00a0 I had just finished the extremely fascinating <em>The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History <\/em>and decided to leave it behind with a brief note and my contact email address.<\/p>\n<p>Monday morning I awoke to an email from a German doctor who heads an infectious disease unit in a German state.\u00a0 She wrote to tell me how much she enjoyed the book and the story of Walter Reed and his cohorts.<\/p>\n<p>It brought a smile to my face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer I was fortunate enough to take a vacation to Iceland.\u00a0 It was a magical place and if you ever have a chance to see it you must.\u00a0 One night we stayed at the Hotel Hellnar which is on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula.\u00a0 In the lobby was a bookcase with instructions to &#8220;Take a Book,&hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/?p=203\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}