{"id":247,"date":"2016-01-23T20:37:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=247"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:43:34","slug":"motivation-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/motivation\/motivation-4\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u201cWhy I Like Stamp Collecting\u201d<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Ayn Rand (1905 &#8211; 1982)<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Autograph manuscript, 1971<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minkus Stamp Journal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Vol. IV, No. 2<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New York : Jacques Minkus, 1971<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Manuscripts Collection, Brown University Library Special Collections<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The novelist Ayn Rand was an avid stamp collector, finding the activity to be \u201ca miraculous brain-restorer.\u201d For Rand, stamp collecting was \u201ca hobby for busy, purposeful, ambitious people&#8211;because, in patterns, it has the essential elements of a career, but transposed to a clearly delimited, intensely private world.\u201d Brown University Library purchased this manuscript and publication in 2015 to shed light on \u00a0personal collecting philosophies and link the stamp collections to other university holdings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/item\/bdr:591271\/\">View the manuscript in the BDR<\/a>. \u00a0 \u00a0| \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/item\/bdr:591264\/\">View the journal article in the BDR<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-991\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-991\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/02\/AynRandStamp.jpg\" alt=\"AynRandStamp\" width=\"300\" height=\"417\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>United States, 1999<\/strong> | <em>Webster Knight Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy I Like Stamp Collecting\u201d Ayn Rand (1905 &#8211; 1982) Autograph manuscript, 1971 Minkus Stamp Journal Vol. IV, No. 2 New York : Jacques Minkus, 1971 Manuscripts Collection, Brown University Library Special Collections The novelist Ayn Rand was an avid stamp collector, finding the activity to be \u201ca miraculous brain-restorer.\u201d For Rand, stamp collecting was <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/motivation\/motivation-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-247","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/247\/revisions\/1035"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}