{"id":4152,"date":"2020-07-08T17:27:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T00:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2020-07-08T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T00:27:32","slug":"learning-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/07\/08\/learning-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning To Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I lean into my chair holding the book by its bind, learning to read what I did not as a child, but now with gray in my stubble. Flipping through the pages, feeling the paper crease between my fingers, I fumble to link it all together.<\/p>\n<p>I follow the words with a methodical dexterity of a trained scientist, and with repetition, I begin to sense the fruits of my labor, basking in the glow of my mother\u2019s maiden language come alive. <\/p>\n<p>The exercise ends with a whistle, as I close my cookbook and taste the pepperpot burn my overeager tongue. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Eric Persaud <\/p>\n<p>Eric is an Indo-Guyanese American living in New York City. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation in Public Health and writing stuff in his free time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lean into my chair holding the book by its bind, learning to read what I did not as a child, but now with gray in my stubble. Flipping through the pages, feeling the paper crease between my fingers, I fumble to link it all together. I follow the words with a methodical dexterity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9210,164,2810,2870,9216,9213,9209,3192,2749,9214,4344,9212,41,1967,9215,73,6383,3456,9217,9200,883,9211,3370,1769,37],"class_list":["post-4152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bind","tag-book","tag-chair","tag-child","tag-cookbook","tag-dexterity","tag-eric-persaud","tag-exercise","tag-fingers","tag-fruits","tag-glow","tag-gray","tag-guest-contributor","tag-labor","tag-maiden-language","tag-mother","tag-pages","tag-paper","tag-pepperpot","tag-repetition","tag-scientist","tag-stubble","tag-tongue","tag-whistle","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4152\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}