{"id":428,"date":"2004-04-01T20:25:05","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T20:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=428"},"modified":"2004-04-01T20:25:05","modified_gmt":"2004-04-01T20:25:05","slug":"feed_your_head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Feed Your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this little blurb entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/2004_03_01_eve-tushnet_archive.html#108060246908412028\">Thirteen Ways to Raise A Nonreader<\/a>.&#8221;  Clever.  When I was a kid, I would read at the dinner table.  It pissed off my parents to no end, but I think they let it slide to get me to eat a little more (I wasn&#8217;t a big eater back then).  All that dinner time reading was probably good preparation for college and law school.  Then again, I kind of flubbed my way through my Victorian Novel exam because I never finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0141439548\/qid=1080872640\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_ka_1\/102-5780733-5794520?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">Middlemarch<\/a>.  I think I still got an A, though.  And in the unlikely event that I ever produce children, I&#8217;ll actively encourage them to read at dinner, so long as it&#8217;s nothing by Tom Clancy or Danielle Steele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this little blurb entitled &#8220;Thirteen Ways to Raise A Nonreader.&#8221; Clever. When I was a kid, I would read at the dinner table. It pissed off my parents to no end, but I think they let it slide to get me to eat a little more (I wasn&#8217;t a big eater back <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=428' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-6U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}