{"id":632,"date":"2006-03-23T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/best-book-stall\/"},"modified":"2006-03-23T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T19:30:00","slug":"best-book-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/best-book-stall\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Book Stall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple of photos from Sunday&#8217;s book-crawl at Abids. <\/p>\n<p><!--more photos-->These two were taken inside the Abids outlet of Best Book Stall. Normally, I am too jaded to try poke into the mysterious piles &#8211; call it a book-hunter&#8217;s quarter-life crisis. But this Sunday, I did, and found loads of stuff, heh heh.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/41\/115885750_2a27151b32.jpg\" alt=\"abids_book_market11\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/47\/115885748_cb1b33dba9.jpg\" alt=\"abids_book_market10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/54\/115878294_827fc7490f.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Notice the pile of comics near the guy&#8217;s feet?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/39\/115878287_efe4dda35f.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The price makes it oh-so-tempting! Any book for 20 Rs. Loads of crappy stuff, but finding a collection of Clive Barker&#8217;s plays or Irvine Welsh&#8217;s <i>Ecstasy<\/i> in such a pile makes up for eyeballing all the other stuff.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/38\/115878277_74678d8314.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is where it begins, right next to a Government Boys&#8217; High School. The Abids bus-stand is right behind me, and the sugarcane juice seller has been here ever since I remember ( 1998 was the first time I was here&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple of photos from Sunday&#8217;s book-crawl at Abids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}