{"id":68,"date":"2015-03-18T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpstg.bethzaske.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2015-03-18T11:28:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T16:28:22","slug":"a-reading-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"A Reading Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to write about reading today. Seems strange as writers are those who create what we read, huh?<\/p>\n

Anyway, reading is on my mind because I have lovingly watched Kirstin transform from a little child\u2014 sitting in laps, getting books out of the book case to have them read to her\u2014to today\u2014still getting books from the book case, but much thicker, and curling up on the couch, the chair, her bed, and reading to herself. On the morning of her eighth birthday, she was wearing a tank-top, ripped up jeans, on the couch reading a book. And I couldn\u2019t help but think: This is awesome!<\/p>\n

Reading has opened up so much for her. She can find any information she wants now. She uses reading to learn about anything that may be in her mind. She reads to entertain herself. She reads. Period.<\/p>\n

Now I am lovingly watching Emily go through the same process. I am here to guide her, as is Matt, and Kirstin, too. While she sits in the chair, with \u201cHop on Pop\u201d by Dr. Seuss open on her lap, reading to Mongo cat, I feel pride. Pretty soon she\u2019ll be the child wearing a tank-top and ripped up jeans on the couch reading a thick book.<\/p>\n

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Emily’s reading buddy and favorite book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And here\u2019s the fun thing: Both Kirstin and Emily have the foundations in place for being successful in school and life, because they are both readers (or will be soon).\u00a0 That’s the best part.<\/p>\n

We all read in this house. Emily reads her \u201cHop on Pop,\u201d \u201cOne Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish,\u201d and has an obsession with the \u201cJudy Moody\u201d books by Megan McDonald. Kirstin reads whatever books she picked out for the day. Lately she has been reading the \u201cEver After High\u201d books by Shannon Hale and anything else she can get her hands on. Matt reads a lot of articles online, from most any genre.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s me. Lately I have been on a Minnesota author kick. I just finished up \u201cThe High Divide\u201d by Lin Enger. I have two books of short stories by Minnesota authors waiting for me. From there I have a few reference books to look through and absorb. And after that, I don’t know. It depends on what I’m in the mood for.<\/p>\n

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I want to write about reading today. Seems strange as writers are those who create what we read, huh? Anyway, reading is on my mind because I have lovingly watched Kirstin transform from a little child\u2014 sitting in laps, getting books out of the book case to have them read to her\u2014to today\u2014still getting books […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethzaske.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}