{"id":207912,"date":"2014-06-04T19:21:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/04\/levar-burton-criticism-of-reading-rainbow-is\/"},"modified":"2014-06-04T19:21:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:21:40","slug":"levar-burton-criticism-of-reading-rainbow-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/04\/levar-burton-criticism-of-reading-rainbow-is\/","title":{"rendered":"LeVar Burton: Criticism Of Reading Rainbow Is &#8216;Bullsh*t&#8217; | ThinkProgress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/culture\/2014\/06\/04\/3444724\/would-levar-burton-like-to-respond-to-reading-rainbow-kickstarter-criticism-i-would-love-to\/'>LeVar Burton: Criticism Of Reading Rainbow Is &#8216;Bullsh*t&#8217; | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote><p>&ldquo;If you want free, independent thinkers, people who can discern for themselves, people who want to actively participate in a democracy, you want them literate. If you want to control people, if you want to feed them a pack of lies and dominate them, keep them ignorant. For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeVar Burton: Criticism Of Reading Rainbow Is &#8216;Bullsh*t&#8217; | ThinkProgress &ldquo;If you want free, independent thinkers, people who can discern for themselves, people who want to actively participate in a democracy, you want them literate. If you want to control people, if you want to feed them a pack of lies and dominate them, keep &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/04\/levar-burton-criticism-of-reading-rainbow-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LeVar Burton: Criticism Of Reading Rainbow Is &#8216;Bullsh*t&#8217; | ThinkProgress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8547,21325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}