{"id":2063,"date":"2020-06-15T13:17:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2020-06-15T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:17:01","slug":"reading-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/reading-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more pictures from the grandsons\u2019 recent visit. The boys love stories, whether someone else is reading to them or they\u2019re reading themselves. The oldest, 8, is an accomplished reader, the 7-year-old does pretty well, though he lacks confidence in his ability, and the 5-year-old has some basic reading skills. The 3-year-old loves to look through books himself and \u2018reads\u2019 the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Their level of comprehension is sometimes astonishing. Bedtime stories for the older three have already covered The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings (all three volumes), and the Silmarillion, among others. They can quote lines from all the books and they\u2019re happy to tell about or even act out scenes from the books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-20-13.28.52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2064 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-20-13.28.52-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-20-13.28.52-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-20-13.28.52-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-20-13.28.52-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-20-13.28.52.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-24-13.15.51-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2065\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-24-13.15.51-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-24-13.15.51-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-24-13.15.51-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-24-13.15.51-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-24-13.15.51-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-30-07.49.21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2066\" src=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-30-07.49.21-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-30-07.49.21-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-30-07.49.21-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-05-30-07.49.21.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more pictures from the grandsons\u2019 recent visit. The boys love stories, whether someone else is reading to them or they\u2019re reading themselves. The oldest, 8, is an accomplished reader, the 7-year-old does pretty well, though he lacks confidence <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/reading-stories\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,70],"tags":[145,181],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family","tag-reading","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}