{"id":863,"date":"2008-11-17T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2013-06-26T13:17:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:17:25","slug":"books-in-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Books in Bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SSD8JUaOCjI\/AAAAAAAAATE\/5mDcvdSkX7Y\/s1600-h\/100_0134.JPG\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269488801051183666\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px; cursor: hand; height: 240px; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SSD8JUaOCjI\/AAAAAAAAATE\/5mDcvdSkX7Y\/s320\/100_0134.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>&#8220;As a parent and a teacher, therefore, I argue for the continuance of books in an age marked by visual technology. There remains nothing like the feel of the book in the hand, <strong>nothing like the security offered by a book in the bed (an experience recorded in the West from at least the twelfth century)<\/strong>.&#8221;\u009d<\/div>\n<div>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0226473007?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0226473007\">Children&#8217;s Literature: A Reader&#8217;s History from Aesop to Harry Potter<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"drznwrdrbsdvrykzephh\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0226473007\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, by Seth Lehrer, p. 16<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As a parent and a teacher, therefore, I argue for the continuance of books in an age marked by visual technology. There remains nothing like the feel of the book in the hand, nothing like the security offered by a book in the bed (an experience recorded in the West from at least the twelfth &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Books in Bed&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":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}