{"id":1929,"date":"2009-03-27T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2020-10-13T11:51:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T18:51:26","slug":"powells-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/powells-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Powell&#8217;s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1000432.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1930\" title=\"powell\\'s bookstore portland oregon\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1000432-732x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"732\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1000432-732x800.jpg 732w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1000432-137x150.jpg 137w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/p1000432.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Powell&#8217;s Books in Portland is the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. With almost a couple of acres of floorspace piled high with not only new, but used and rare titles too, the selection of over 4 million books is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>My son, pictured above, was in heaven seeing the heaps of <em>Naruto<\/em> (in English) and other <em>manga<\/em> so nicely arranged. I picked up some used copies of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/kochi-kame-\u3053\u3061\u4e80-or-\u3053\u3061\u304b\u3081\/\">kochi kame<\/a><\/em> (in Japanese) for only $2.50 each. Once I finish them they can be yours.<\/p>\n<p>If you visit Powell&#8217;s be sure to check out the rare book collection on the top floor. There are some amazing titles. Many of the books go for well over $1,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powell&#8217;s Books in Portland is the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. With almost a couple of acres of floorspace piled high with not only new, but used and rare titles too, the selection of over 4 million books is amazing. My son, pictured above, was in heaven seeing the heaps of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[8,62,179,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22660,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/22660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}