{"id":732,"date":"2006-10-11T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2013-06-28T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T19:40:29","slug":"the-power-of-books-for-children-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Books for Children, Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Never underestimate the power of books for children. Note this well: it was the literature we read before we attained sophistication, maturity, and adulthood that has done the most to mold our characters, frame our thoughts, and influence our lives. A catalog of such books might well afford us a better map of comprehension than all the machinations of psychology.&#8221;\u009d<br \/>\n&#8211; Richard Ogilvie (1902-1988)<\/p>\n<p>From: Grant, George &amp; Karen Grant. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FShelf-Life-Destinies-Desires-Nations%2Fdp%2F1581820437%3Fie%3DUTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Shelf Life: How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of Men and Nations<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"eqnoxeshosnsbycfxqoj\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing, 1999, page 168. This is a great book which I would highly recommend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Never underestimate the power of books for children. Note this well: it was the literature we read before we attained sophistication, maturity, and adulthood that has done the most to mold our characters, frame our thoughts, and influence our lives. A catalog of such books might well afford us a better map of comprehension than &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Power of Books for Children, Quote&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\/732"}],"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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}