{"id":281,"date":"2005-09-06T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2010-05-08T20:57:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:57:40","slug":"the-pleasure-of-reading-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/the-pleasure-of-reading-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pleasure of Reading Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been too hot and humid here in north  Mississippi to\u00a0stay outside even at 8:00 a.m. or 10:00 p.m. (Imagine a  hot, wet blanket hitting you in the face every time you open the door.)\u00a0  But the past few days have been comparatively cool (70s instead of high  80s) in early mornings and late evenings, and this afternoon it was so  downright pleasant and breezy that I read aloud to the boys in the shade  of our front yard at 2:00 p.m.!\u00a0 This would have been unthinkable two  weeks ago.\u00a0 I was so comfortable I nearly dozed off in my lawn chair in  the middle of <em>The Swiss Family Robinson!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Reading aloud to my boys outdoors is one of the  great pleasures of homeschooling.\u00a0 My delight was only reinforced by the  mailman asking my 13yo, &#8220;Shouldn&#8217;t you be in school today?&#8221; and my son  replying, &#8220;We&#8217;re doing school right now!&#8221;\u00a0 Ahhhhh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been too hot and humid here in north Mississippi to\u00a0stay outside even at 8:00 a.m. or 10:00 p.m. (Imagine a hot, wet blanket hitting you in the face every time you open the door.)\u00a0 But the past few days have been comparatively cool (70s instead of high 80s) in early mornings and late &#8230; <a title=\"The Pleasure of Reading Outdoors\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/the-pleasure-of-reading-outdoors\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Pleasure of Reading Outdoors\">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-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}