{"id":571,"date":"2017-05-09T00:53:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T04:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=571"},"modified":"2017-05-09T00:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T04:53:19","slug":"169-48-hour-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"169. 48-Hour Reading Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a week off, and thought I&#8217;d finish up with one of my favorite things to do &#8211; a 48-Hour Reading Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>I got the idea from Mother Reader, years ago.  I admit, it&#8217;s more fun when you join people from all over the internet doing it at the same time, but I didn&#8217;t plan enough in advance.<\/p>\n<p>In the 48 hours from Friday morning at 8:00 am to Sunday morning at 8:00 am, I managed to read and review for 29 hours and 5 minutes.  <\/p>\n<p>I finished 7 books in that time, 4 of them started from the beginning.<br \/>\nI wrote reviews of 10 books, writing 5,466 words.<br \/>\nI posted 3 reviews.<\/p>\n<p>I figure next year, when I&#8217;m on the Newbery committee, I&#8217;ll need to do this much more often!  (Without taking time to post reviews!)<\/p>\n<p>But in the meantime, it was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a week off, and thought I&#8217;d finish up with one of my favorite things to do &#8211; a 48-Hour Reading Challenge. I got the idea from Mother Reader, years ago. I admit, it&#8217;s more fun when you join people from all over the internet doing it at the same time, but I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"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=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}