{"id":384,"date":"2024-04-21T23:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T23:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/?page_id=384"},"modified":"2024-04-21T23:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T23:27:06","slug":"my-why","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/my-why\/","title":{"rendered":"My Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Books have always been a big part of my life; from my parents reading to me when I was young, to reading books, both required for college and not required.\u00a0My desire to read was instilled in me at a very young age by my grandmother and my parents. I believe this is one of the reasons I love to read and became an English Teacher.\u00a0I want to help make reading fun and interesting for others.\u00a0Sometimes books are viewed as \u201crequired\u201d and students don\u2019t get enjoyment from them as they might from a book about something that interests them.\u00a0I plan to have a reading library available in my classroom of books that I have read and enjoy for my students to share.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books have always been a big part of my life; from my parents reading to me when I was young, to reading books, both required for college and not required.\u00a0My &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/my-why\/\"> 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-384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384","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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bridgewater.edu\/mrankin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}