{"id":1595,"date":"2005-11-11T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:46:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:46:47","slug":"a-good-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"A good read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afghanmagazine.com\/2004_06\/articles\/images\/kiterunner_germancover.print.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afghanmagazine.com\/2004_06\/articles\/images\/kiterunner_germancover.print.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I spent a fair amount of class time tonight discussing with my students the novel we&#8217;re reading this semester, &#8220;The Kite Runner&#8221; by Khaled Hosseini.  It seems that most are enjoying the book (or so they tell me) and it is exciting to see these *non-readers* anxious to talk about a book!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I think it was a good choice, despite my misgivings about the sometimes uncomfortable to discuss (in a roomful of college-age students) subject matter.  They are handling it well and maturely.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">We are counting down now to the end of the semester and a well-deserved break!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a fair amount of class time tonight discussing with my students the novel we&#8217;re reading this semester, &#8220;The Kite Runner&#8221; by Khaled Hosseini. It seems that most are enjoying the book (or so they tell me) and it is exciting to see these *non-readers* anxious to talk about a book!I think it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A good read<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}