{"id":2886,"date":"2006-08-14T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:40","slug":"looking-for-excuses-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Excuses to Read?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ALA will be kicking off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/yalsa\/teenreading\/trw\/trw2006\/soccer.htm\">Teen Read Week<\/a> on October 15-21, 2006, co-chaired by two Major League Soccer superstars. As my husband puts it, compared to other athletes participating in reading programs, &#8220;I actually believe these guys can read.&#8221; Although we&#8217;re obliged to professionally hate Kevin Hartman, who is goalkeeper for our former rival team, I approve of his support of Teen Read Week. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>Also on the ALA site, you can view a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/yalsa\/teenreading\/teenstopten\/teenstopten.htm\">list of nominations for Teens&#8217; Top Ten<\/a> for 2006. A former professor of mine and TadMack&#8217;s, Kathryn Reiss, has a new book on the list, Blackthorn Winter; I&#8217;ll have to try to find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ALA will be kicking off Teen Read Week on October 15-21, 2006, co-chaired by two Major League Soccer superstars. As my husband puts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,10],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}