{"id":726,"date":"2006-09-16T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2013-06-28T16:12:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T20:12:59","slug":"enjoying-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For sometime now I have been wanting to write something on instilling a love for reading in your children. This is not that piece, but perhaps is a precursor.<br \/>\nToday we made an outing, partially to be a nice event after our son&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rvanneste.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/update.html\">accident<\/a> (and full recovery). We went out to eat and then to a used bookstore in town that we all like. At lunch, as we discussed going to the bookstore, my 10 year old looked up and declared, like a man stating his preference of the finer pleasures of life, &#8220;I like the smell of books, Dad.&#8221;\u009d I smiled, and inwardly rejoiced! Yes! Love books, my son, and you will be nourished in so many ways in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For sometime now I have been wanting to write something on instilling a love for reading in your children. This is not that piece, but perhaps is a precursor. Today we made an outing, partially to be a nice event after our son&#8217;s accident (and full recovery). We went out to eat and then to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Enjoying Books&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3708,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/3708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}