{"id":491,"date":"2026-07-25T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=491"},"modified":"2026-07-25T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:05:11","slug":"reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the off chance that anyone should care, I offer my list of favorite books other than the scriptures:<br><br><em>The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri, an Egyptian Endowment,<\/em> by Hugh Nibley<br><br><em>One Eternal Round<\/em>, by Hugh Nibley<br><br><em>Hamlet&#8217;s Mill,<\/em>by De Santillana and Von Dechend<br><br><em>The Hero with a Thousand Faces , <\/em>by Joseph Campbell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone who reads these books will understand why my favorite movie is <em>Joe vs. the Volcano<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To quote Hamlet: <em>\u201cThere are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the off chance that anyone should care, I offer my list of favorite books other than the scriptures: The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri, an Egyptian Endowment, by Hugh Nibley One Eternal Round, by Hugh Nibley Hamlet&#8217;s Mill,by De Santillana and Von Dechend The Hero with a Thousand Faces , by Joseph Campbell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}