{"id":405,"date":"2009-02-27T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T22:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2009-02-27T18:26:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T22:26:45","slug":"405","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/405","title":{"rendered":"Curled up with a book&#8230;finally."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3582\/3315038006_0f920a92a2.jpg' alt='' class='alignnone' \/><\/p>\n<p>This is Ethan, affectionately known as EJ or even E-money at times (his daddy gave him that last one &#8211; no idea why, but it&#8217;s kinda cute).  Ethan gives us challenges, just like any other kid, but a big one has always been this:<\/p>\n<p>He hates to read.  <\/p>\n<p>So, when he was prompted to choose a chapter book for literature last week I thought he&#8217;d do the usual&#8230;pick the easiest, shortest, minimum-#-of-words-on-page book he could find.  He surprised me and chose The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.  And, not the watered-down youth version&#8230;the adult version.  Biggest surprise?  He loves it!  For years, I&#8217;ve been trying to find that subject, that genre of book that would &#8220;get him&#8221;.  I&#8217;m now on a mission to find good science fiction novels&#8230;I&#8217;ve already found that C. S. Lewis wrote a trilogy of them and I have the first one on reserve at the library.  <\/p>\n<p>Just had to brag on my EJ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Ethan, affectionately known as EJ or even E-money at times (his daddy gave him that last one &#8211; no idea why, but it&#8217;s kinda cute). Ethan gives us challenges, just like any other kid, but a big one has always been this: He hates to read. So, when he was prompted to choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}