{"id":254836,"date":"2007-08-22T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T14:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/22\/how-to-read-a-novel\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:46","slug":"how-to-read-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/22\/how-to-read-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Read a Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To cleanse our palates of the last, oh-so-expected-but-depressing post, let&#8217;s turn our eyes to something that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/11\/how-to-read-a-book\/\">Right-reading<\/a> pointed out to us, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/79b7f75a-be2c-11db-bd86-0000779e2340.html\">round-up<\/a> of four recent books that want to help us become better readers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As Zaid puts it: &#8220;What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we&#8217;ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There, there. Isn&#8217;t that much better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To cleanse our palates of the last, oh-so-expected-but-depressing post, let&#8217;s turn our eyes to something that Right-reading pointed out to us, a round-up of four recent books that want to help us become better readers. As Zaid puts it: &#8220;What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[4856],"class_list":["post-254836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-right-reading"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363056,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254836\/revisions\/363056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}