{"id":142,"date":"2009-01-21T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/a-mystery.html"},"modified":"2009-01-21T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T04:14:00","slug":"mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/mystery.html","title":{"rendered":"A Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around a dozen books were all due the day after I came back from San Diego. Before I left I figured I’d get a head start and return all of those books. But one of them. Never. Made. It.<\/span> I now have an overdue book, Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism<\/span> by Conrad and Demarest. The question is: where is it? Let’s examine the evidence.<\/p>\n

A month ago, before when I was gathering books to return to the library, I had the foresight to make a checklist, which I still have because my recycling bin is in dire need of emptying. The Conrad and Demarest book is clearly checked off so I must have found it that day. <\/p>\n

The backpack I used to carry these books to the library dropslot was also used for my trip. It goes without saying that my book was not in my backpack. I checked anyway. Nope. <\/p>\n

I visited the library today. My book has not been reshelved. Given that it has had a month to get back there, it seems likely that the book never re-entered circulation. <\/p>\n

So where is the book?! The only conceivable place is that is is in my car. I looked from the driver’s seat and didn’t see it. My car is messy though so I should do a thorough all-angle search. If the book is not there I may have to concede defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around a dozen books were all due the day after I came back from San Diego. Before I left I figured I’d get a head start and return all of those books. But one of them. Never. Made. It. I now have an overdue book, Religion and Empire: The Dynamics… Read more“A Mystery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[55,60],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}