{"id":2542,"date":"2002-06-15T09:22:51","date_gmt":"2002-06-15T09:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2002-06-15T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2002-06-15T09:22:51","slug":"read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"READ THIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meryl Yourish defends reading, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourish.com\/archives\/2002\/june9-15_2002.html#2002061501\">here<\/a>. All three of my sons read a lot; partly because we have no broadcast TV in the house.<br \/>\nThe Littlest Guy, who is 5, read himself to sleep last night with &#8216;Barney and the Dinosaur&#8217;; when we went in to turn out his lights, he was asleep with his head on the book. Biggest Guy was just assigned reading as a part of his honors program at UVA, where he&#8217;ll be a freshman next year. &#8216;Ender&#8217;s Game&#8217;, which he read when he was about 12, and wrote papers about in high school (hint: I think he&#8217;ll do well with the book). Middlest Guy is talking about writing his own RPG.<br \/>\nThey aren&#8217;t geniuses; they just have the habit of reading.<br \/>\nKill your TV. It&#8217;s the best thing you can do as a parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meryl Yourish defends reading, here. All three of my sons read a lot; partly because we have no broadcast TV in the house. The Littlest Guy, who is 5, read himself to sleep last night with &#8216;Barney and the Dinosaur&#8217;; when we went in to turn out his lights, he was asleep with his head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}