{"id":50439,"date":"2017-05-08T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=50439"},"modified":"2017-05-07T05:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T05:09:36","slug":"the-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/the-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"the reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can&#8217;t lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won&#8217;t move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won&#8217;t move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it &#8230; To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it&#8211;everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is not interactive with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is actual collaboration with the writer&#8217;s mind. No wonder not everyone is up to it. <small>\u2015 Ursula K. Le Guin<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can&#8217;t lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won&#8217;t move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won&#8217;t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/the-reader\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1176],"tags":[373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50440,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439\/revisions\/50440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}