{"id":69327,"date":"2020-08-28T04:40:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T08:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=69327"},"modified":"2020-10-13T23:32:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T03:32:31","slug":"meet-sebastian-a-teddy-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2020\/08\/28\/meet-sebastian-a-teddy-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sebastian the teddy bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sebastian.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sebastian.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sebastian-113x150.jpeg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Meet Sebastian. About three years ago, someone anonymously left (at our back door) four boxes filled with about 60 volumes of the Great Books of the Western World, a series published by the University of Chicago and Encyclopedia Brittanica in the mid 1950s. In the last box was a teddy bear, dressed in overalls, a bowler hat, bow tie and shiny tap dance shoes. If you recognize this bear, please know he\u2019s found a good home in the bookshop. He loves to read every day and is usually found up on his perch next to the Great Books shelf. Sebastian is a knowledge hungry teddy and loves reading lots of different books. Here he is, in the children\u2019s section reading from Milton\u2019s <em>Paradise Lost.<\/em><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n\u201cUnspeakable desire to see, and know<br \/>\nAll these his wondrous works, but chiefly Man,<br \/>\nHis chief delight and favor, him for whom<br \/>\nAll these his works so wondrous he ordained&#8230;\u201d \u2014John Milton, Paradise Lost #greatbooksofthewesternworld<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69329\" style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E65520DE-1EB4-4EC1-9E1A-DF3DF6C441F0-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" class=\"size-large wp-image-69329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E65520DE-1EB4-4EC1-9E1A-DF3DF6C441F0-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E65520DE-1EB4-4EC1-9E1A-DF3DF6C441F0-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E65520DE-1EB4-4EC1-9E1A-DF3DF6C441F0-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E65520DE-1EB4-4EC1-9E1A-DF3DF6C441F0-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E65520DE-1EB4-4EC1-9E1A-DF3DF6C441F0-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E65520DE-1EB4-4EC1-9E1A-DF3DF6C441F0-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/E65520DE-1EB4-4EC1-9E1A-DF3DF6C441F0-1320x990.jpeg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-69329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sebastian and his great books collection.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Sebastian. About three years ago, someone anonymously left (at our back door) four boxes filled with about 60 volumes of the Great Books of the Western World, a series published by the University of Chicago and Encyclopedia Brittanica in the mid 1950s. 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