{"id":1189,"date":"2010-07-30T23:22:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T03:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2010-07-30T23:22:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T03:22:14","slug":"why-kids-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"Why Kids Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do kids read?  They read because they are made to, of course, but they also read &#8212; via media in a multitude of forms &#8212; because they want to find something out, or they want to join their imagination with somebody else&#8217;s.  I will say it again:  <em>They read for the same reasons adults do.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Roger Sutton, <em>A Family of Readers<\/em>, p. xviii<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do kids read? They read because they are made to, of course, but they also read &#8212; via media in a multitude of forms &#8212; because they want to find something out, or they want to join their imagination with somebody else&#8217;s. I will say it again: They read for the same reasons adults [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,31,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-children","category-children-and-books","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}