{"id":221095,"date":"2014-03-22T07:35:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T07:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/22\/knowing-how-to-read-and-not-reading-books-is-like\/"},"modified":"2014-03-22T07:35:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T07:35:42","slug":"knowing-how-to-read-and-not-reading-books-is-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/22\/knowing-how-to-read-and-not-reading-books-is-like\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Knowing how to read and not reading books is like owning skis and not skiing, owning a board and never riding a wave, or, well, having your favorite sandwich in your hand and not eating it. If you owned a telescope that would open up the entire universe for you would you try to find reason for not looking through it? Because that is exactly what reading is all about; it opens up the universe of humour, of adventure, of romance, of climbing the highest mountain, of diving in the deepest sea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Chuck Jones (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dduane.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dduane<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing how to read and not reading books is like owning skis and not skiing, owning a board and never riding a wave, or, well, having your favorite sandwich in your hand and not eating it. If you owned a telescope that would open up the entire universe for you would you try to find &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/22\/knowing-how-to-read-and-not-reading-books-is-like\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[452,652,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221095"}],"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=221095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}