{"id":2692,"date":"2007-08-30T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2007-08-30T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T16:44:00","slug":"2692","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2692","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/archives\/2007_08_01_index.html#8230384036154050190\">I posted<\/a> (along with probably half the internet) about that AP\/Isos poll that said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/LIVING\/wayoflife\/08\/21\/reading.ap\/index.html\">one in four Americans wasn&#8217;t reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/writtennerd.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/link-mad-response-american-reading.html\">the Written Nerd offers<\/a> a helpful rebuttal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m going to repeat that, in case you missed it. The NEA declared that half of Americans had NOT read a book in 2002. AP\/Ipsos declared that one in four Americans had NOT read a book in 2006. All the while, half of Americans DID read a book in 2002, and three quarters of Americans DID read a book in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Three-quarters is more than half.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\">Bookslut<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I posted (along with probably half the internet) about that AP\/Isos poll that said one in four Americans wasn&#8217;t reading. Now the Written Nerd offers a helpful rebuttal: I&#8217;m going to repeat that, in case you missed it. The NEA declared that half of Americans had NOT read a book in 2002. AP\/Ipsos &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2692\">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":[238],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}