{"id":12027,"date":"2014-01-21T23:52:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T23:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/21\/the-best-way-to-get-kids-to-read-a-book-is-to-say\/"},"modified":"2014-01-21T23:52:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T23:52:33","slug":"the-best-way-to-get-kids-to-read-a-book-is-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/21\/the-best-way-to-get-kids-to-read-a-book-is-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: \u2018This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you\u2019re better off not touching it until you\u2019re all grown up. I\u2019m going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don\u2019t open it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\u00a0Philip Pullman (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/abookblog.tumblr.com\/\">abookblog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: \u2018This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you\u2019re better off not touching it until you\u2019re all grown up. I\u2019m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/01\/21\/the-best-way-to-get-kids-to-read-a-book-is-to-say\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5643,1069],"class_list":["post-12027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-haha-true-story","tag-reading","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}