{"id":146,"date":"2012-09-12T18:33:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T01:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/?p=146"},"modified":"2012-09-12T18:33:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T01:33:46","slug":"reading-after-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/2012\/09\/12\/reading-after-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading After Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/swedish_heritage_board\/5558277961\/\" title=\"Reading man, Sweden by Swedish National Heritage Board, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5052\/5558277961_6cf0f995e8.jpg\" width=\"377\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Reading man, Sweden\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture reminds me of what my philosophy teacher would tell us of her habits: that she would sit down after dinner every evening for good 2 hours of fine, rigourous reading. When I heard her say that, as though it was a commonly accepted practice, I aspired to do the same. But the internet or the TV never let me.<br \/>\nIt is all too often that I feel I have wasted precious moments of my life, which otherwise could have be occupied by &#8220;fine, rigourous reading,&#8221; to be navigating through Facebook or simply receiving a movie as passively as possible. Despite all these forces that held me back, I still did manage to sit down at times and read a book. My academic career, mostly, made sure of that.<br \/>\nBut now I wonder at the fate of the young people that I will teach. How and when are they to find time, or the energy necessary to combat the contrary forces, to sit down and actually read. Perhaps, the answer to my fearful wondering lies in what I have referred to as contrary forces. Perhaps it is within the platforms of social media or among the nonsense found in the confines of a television that these young people will experience what the man in this picture is experiencing from his wooden technology.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture reminds me of what my philosophy teacher would tell us of her habits: that she would sit down after dinner every evening for good 2 hours of fine, rigourous reading. When I heard her say that, as though it was a commonly accepted practice, I aspired to do the same. But the internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}