{"id":362,"date":"2024-04-21T23:03:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T23:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/?page_id=362"},"modified":"2024-04-21T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T23:04:00","slug":"my-moms-relationship-with-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/my-moms-relationship-with-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mom&#8217;s Relationship with Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My mom didn\u2019t like to read when she was growing up. She doesn\u2019t remember just having children\u2019s books available to her.\u00a0The only things she remembers reading in school are two books, a history book about Jamestown in the third grade and the <em>Scarlet Letter<\/em> in high school.\u00a0There is another book, that haunts her from high school, that she cannot remember the name of but it was required reading and it involved a young mother and her baby hiding in a mountain cave and the baby dying from a scorpion sting.\u00a0Maybe that\u2019s why it took her into her adulthood to finally realize that reading was for pleasure and not a requirement.\u00a0Our past does influence us more than we realize sometimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom didn\u2019t like to read when she was growing up. She doesn\u2019t remember just having children\u2019s books available to her.\u00a0The only things she remembers reading in school are two &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/my-moms-relationship-with-reading\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":397,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-362","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/362\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}