{"id":6036,"date":"2018-03-14T16:51:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T23:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2018-03-14T17:09:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:09:04","slug":"does-reading-make-you-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/2018\/03\/14\/does-reading-make-you-smarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Does reading make you smarter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bardya commented to my previous Battle of the Books post (below), &#8220;Another month of constant reading!&#8221;. I did not miss the sarcasm there! But I also wanted to say, &#8220;<em>You&#8217;re welcome!<\/em>&#8220;, because I know that reading builds intelligence! <em>Bardya, you can thank me later!<\/em> In the meantime, here are two blog posts I found on the topic. Please pick one and write a BLOG RESPONSE to the article. I also will be asking some comprehension questions later. <em>You can thank, Bardya, for that one!<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/jan\/23\/can-reading-make-you-smarter\">Can Reading Make You Smarter?<\/a>&nbsp;Source: The Guardian, by Dan Hurley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/21st-century-spirituality\/reading-rewires-your-brain-for-more-intelligence-and-empathy\">Reading Rewires Your Brain for More Intelligence and Empathy&nbsp;<\/a>Source: Big Think, by Derek Beres<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/assets1.bigthink.com\/system\/idea_thumbnails\/63519\/size_896\/reading_spiritual.jpg?1505314740\" alt=\"Article Image\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bardya commented to my previous Battle of the Books post (below), &#8220;Another month of constant reading!&#8221;. I did not miss the sarcasm there! But I also wanted to say, &#8220;You&#8217;re welcome!&#8220;, because I know that reading builds intelligence! Bardya, you can thank me later! In the meantime, here are two blog posts I found on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6044,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions\/6044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}