{"id":178,"date":"2023-09-25T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2023-09-25T00:09:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T05:09:22","slug":"reading-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/reading-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been a voracious reader of books and periodicals since I learned to read in first grade. Second grade, my teacher took me to the librarian and asked her to give me access to anything I wanted to read. And read I did. No, I didn’t understand it all. But eventually, even what I didn’t understand became a part of my unquenchable desire for knowledge and learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today, I read about 100 books a year. Mostly science fiction, but also memoirs of homesteading, pioneering, and survival and personal achievement or growth. I don’t have time to fit it all in here, but if you see it here, I enjoyed reading and long after I turned the last page, the book stood out as an exceptional story.<\/p>\n

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I read about 100 books a year, give or take a few. The ones I like a lot might make it onto this page. In particular I enjoy Science Fiction and Memoirs of Pioneering & Homesteading or Personal Achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"semantictags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"semantictags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjloganwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/semantictags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}