{"id":6238,"date":"2011-10-13T16:15:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T00:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2011-10-13T16:16:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T00:16:18","slug":"so-what-am-i-e-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/10\/13\/so-what-am-i-e-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"I have 2 very conflicting genres of read&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have 2 very conflicting genres of reading materials in general &#8211; my preferred reading is fiction, although I have read my share of biographies and self-help books too &#8211; but I belong to 2 different book clubs and so my exposure to great fiction is a cherished distraction from work. \u00a0But finding time to read this fiction is becoming more restricted to my vacation time &#8211; and I am lucky to be able to head to warm climates and enjoy my e-reader fiction selections at poolside while magical beverages appear regularly at my side&#8230;and yes, I have been caught with my e-reader over my face while I nap a wee bit.<\/p>\n<p>But the majority of my reading has been professional reading &#8211; research articles, and many many books about education from leading experts on every pedagogical topic out there..because of that, I notice my e-reader sitting on my shelf, and I sigh, knowing that it represents a very relaxing special time for me&#8230;I refuse to put professional material on it &#8211; that would ruin its mystique for me. \u00a0That&#8217;s what my laptop is for &#8211; my task master<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have 2 very conflicting genres of reading materials in general &#8211; my preferred reading is fiction, although I have read my share of biographies and self-help books too &#8211; but I belong to 2 different book clubs and so my exposure to great fiction is a cherished distraction from work. \u00a0But finding time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328737],"tags":[2501],"class_list":["post-6238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-06-emerging-market-analysis","tag-ebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions\/6243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}