{"id":125,"date":"2014-10-28T08:17:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T13:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2017-05-10T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:59:41","slug":"scaffolds-a-childhood-memoir-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/28\/scaffolds-a-childhood-memoir-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaffolds: A Childhood Memoir of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scaffolds-A-Childhood-Memoir-Books\/dp\/1502992205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-126\" src=\"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Scaffolds_Cover_for_Kindle-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scaffolds_Cover_for_Kindle\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Scaffolds_Cover_for_Kindle-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Scaffolds_Cover_for_Kindle-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Scaffolds_Cover_for_Kindle.jpg 1294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a GenXer in the 1980s, I grew up as a latch-key kid. TV, movies, and video games vied for my siblings and my attention as we ate junk food. Yet, I became a reader at an early age, majored in English post-high school, and became a teacher and writer. Something about my childhood encouraged me to become a life-long reader. What was it?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scaffolds-A-Childhood-Memoir-Books\/dp\/1502992205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>SCAFFOLDS: A CHILDHOOD MEMOIR OF BOOKS<\/em> <\/a><\/strong>is about the meaningful books I read when I was a kid and teenager. But the key to creating a life-long reader isn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a GenXer in the 1980s, I grew up as a latch-key kid. TV, movies, and video games vied for my siblings and my attention as we ate junk food. Yet, I became a reader at an early age, majored in English post-high school, and became a teacher and writer. Something about my childhood encouraged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/28\/scaffolds-a-childhood-memoir-of-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scaffolds: A Childhood Memoir of Books<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,17,19,15,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}