{"id":608,"date":"2009-03-31T18:24:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T22:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/?p=608"},"modified":"2009-04-01T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T14:12:36","slug":"heyremember-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/heyremember-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, remember reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember reading?<\/p>\n<p>That love I used to have, devouring novels by the dozen, most lovingly at the beach, 5 p.m., on a towel, 12 years old, thumbing through the last dog-earred page of\u00a0 &#8220;Gone with the Wind&#8221; &#8211; the paperback with tiny print!<\/p>\n<p>ML reads. He puts me to shame, tossing back history tomes of 800 pages, noting them in his leather journal, as he has for multiple decades.<\/p>\n<p>But me? Something happened somewhere along year 8 or 9 of journalism. I like BUYING books, I like reading newspaper and magazine articles and the first chapter or two of a novel but I hardly finish them anymore and I am ashamed, a shadow of my former self.<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago I picked up this:<\/p>\n<p><OBJECT classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/get\/flashplayer\/current\/swflash.cab\" id=\"Player_fd7cd9ca-fc1e-493b-88c0-3796d7440613\"  WIDTH=\"250px\" HEIGHT=\"250px\"> <PARAM NAME=\"movie\" VALUE=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fwashwords-20%2F8003%2Ffd7cd9ca-fc1e-493b-88c0-3796d7440613&#038;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate\"><PARAM NAME=\"quality\" VALUE=\"high\"><PARAM NAME=\"bgcolor\" VALUE=\"#FFFFFF\"><PARAM NAME=\"allowscriptaccess\" VALUE=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fwashwords-20%2F8003%2Ffd7cd9ca-fc1e-493b-88c0-3796d7440613&#038;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate\" id=\"Player_fd7cd9ca-fc1e-493b-88c0-3796d7440613\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" name=\"Player_fd7cd9ca-fc1e-493b-88c0-3796d7440613\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"  type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" height=\"250px\" width=\"250px\"><\/embed><\/OBJECT> <NOSCRIPT><A HREF=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fwashwords-20%2F8003%2Ffd7cd9ca-fc1e-493b-88c0-3796d7440613&#038;Operation=NoScript\">Amazon.com Widgets<\/A><\/NOSCRIPT><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A spot of bother&#8221; by Mark Haddon, author of &#8220;The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.&#8221; Today I&#8217;ll be done. I&#8217;m relaxed, intrigued, thinking, writing (if only in my head&#8230; for now) again.<\/p>\n<p>Reading is good. I think I&#8217;ll do more of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember reading? That love I used to have, devouring novels by the dozen, most lovingly at the beach, 5 p.m., on a towel, 12 years old, thumbing through the last dog-earred page of\u00a0 &#8220;Gone with the Wind&#8221; &#8211; the paperback with tiny print! ML reads. He puts me to shame, tossing back history tomes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}