{"id":29,"date":"2015-08-10T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=29"},"modified":"2015-08-10T21:27:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T01:27:10","slug":"11-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"11.  Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit it &#8212; Summer isn&#8217;t my favorite time to work in the library, when it can be something of a madhouse.<\/p>\n<p>But one thing I do like?\u00a0 The look on kids&#8217; faces when they bring in their completed list of 15 books they&#8217;ve read for the Summer Reading Program.\u00a0 I like asking them which book was their favorite.\u00a0 I like talking to them about books before the summer starts.\u00a0 I like finding books for them they&#8217;ve heard about and want to read.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I have a part in motivating ordinary kids &#8212; kids from every imaginable ethnicity and walk of life &#8212; to read during the summer.\u00a0 And I am happy with them when they meet the goal and receive their prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit it &#8212; Summer isn&#8217;t my favorite time to work in the library, when it can be something of a madhouse. But one thing I do like?\u00a0 The look on kids&#8217; faces when they bring in their completed list of 15 books they&#8217;ve read for the Summer Reading Program.\u00a0 I like asking them which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}