{"id":50,"date":"2010-05-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2010\/05\/14\/making_memories_with_books\/"},"modified":"2010-05-14T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T04:00:00","slug":"making_memories_with_books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2010\/05\/making_memories_with_books\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Memories with Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a dumb story I heard today:&nbsp; A kid asked his dad if the dad could teach him how to fish.&nbsp; So the dad went out and bought the boy a fishing video game. I hope you, the reader, aren&#8217;t that kind of parent.&nbsp; Your kids will be grown and out of the house before you know it. As a co-worker once told me about raising children: &#8220;The days go too slow, and the years go too fast.&#8221;&nbsp; Put down some memories that your children and grandchildren can reach back into when you&#8217;re gone. Reading to a child is one of the easiest and most memorable ways to do that. You can celebrate National Children&#8217;s Book Week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookweekonline.com\/\">www.bookweekonline.com<\/a> by going to the library and getting some fun or interesting stuff to read. Or you can order my book &#8220;Dad the Tooth Fairy Didn&#8217;t Come!&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/tooth\/\">www.jerrybegly.com\/tooth<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The days go too slow, and the years go too fast.&#8221;  Put down some memories that&#8230;<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2010\/05\/making_memories_with_books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[618],"tags":[635,639,638,662,661,664,626,652,657,663],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggathon","tag-book-week-2010","tag-buy-book","tag-buy-the-tooth-book","tag-days-too-slow","tag-make-memories-by-reading","tag-memories","tag-national-childrens-book-week","tag-read-a-kid-book","tag-read-to-grandkids","tag-weeks-too-fast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B5nY-O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}