{"id":211,"date":"2005-07-27T20:34:59","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T20:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:35:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:35:27","slug":"surround-your-children-with-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/surround-your-children-with-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Surround Your Children with Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>No man has a right to bring up his children  without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It  is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by  being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading  and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is  almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Henry Ward Beecher, <em>The Sermons of Henry  Ward Beecher <\/em>(1870)<\/p>\n<p>My children are certainly surrounded with  books!\u00a0 There are 7 bookcases in my home office, 7 in the living room, 5 in the  dining room, 3 in the kitchen and breakfast room, 2 in the hall, 3 in  the bedrooms. Not to mention all those boxes of recent library-sale  acquisitions that I haven\u2019t even shelved yet. . . .<\/p>\n<p>I would love to have a dedicated &#8220;library&#8221; with  floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall bookcases, but it&#8217;s probably better to  have books in every room anyway.\u00a0 Oh, but the Beast&#8217;s library in the\u00a0<em>Beauty  and the Beast<\/em> movie is certainly glorious!<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. &#8230; <a title=\"Surround Your Children with Books!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/surround-your-children-with-books\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Surround Your Children with Books!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}