{"id":585,"date":"2010-07-10T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=585"},"modified":"2010-07-10T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T04:00:25","slug":"why-havent-you-read-dickens-you-know-you-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Why haven&#8217;t you read Dickens? You know you want to."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My personal recommendation is Oliver Twist. David Copperfield is a very, very close second.<\/p>\n<p>And then you can tackle Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis&#8217; non-fiction, and Charlotte&#8217;s Web. The book, not the movie.<\/p>\n<p>The point to all this? Never stop learning. You learned in elementary school because they told you to. You learned in high school because you dreaded the loss of college and the pains of restriction. You learned in college because, by gum, you&#8217;d paid for it.<\/p>\n<p>And now it&#8217;s a warm Saturday and you have the evening to watch tv. Go learn something for you, instead. Not for a teacher, a parent, a job, a promotion, or a degree. Just for the sheer joy of learning. You ate your brussels sprouts. Now go take a bite of chocolate cream pie. Learning for joy is a pleasure you won&#8217;t want to give up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My personal recommendation is Oliver Twist. David Copperfield is a very, very close second. And then you can tackle Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis&#8217; non-fiction, and Charlotte&#8217;s Web. The book, not the movie. The point to all this? Never stop learning. You learned in elementary school because they told you to. You learned in high school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}