{"id":24026,"date":"2012-03-25T22:57:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T22:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-wondered-whether-giving-more-than-10-minutes-of\/"},"modified":"2012-03-25T22:57:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T22:57:43","slug":"i-wondered-whether-giving-more-than-10-minutes-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-wondered-whether-giving-more-than-10-minutes-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I wondered whether giving more than 10 minutes of every class period to reading books of our own choosing was a good idea or not. But you loved it so. You asked for more time. Ask again; I will give you whatever you need. I will also give you the best advice I can, advice from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, Juan Ram\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez. Ray Bradbury thought this was so important, he used it as the epigraph at the beginning of Fahrenheit 451: \u201cWhen they give you lined paper, write the other way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2012\/03\/23-8#.T29Xyl9VTto.facebook\">&lsquo;A Test You Need to Fail&rsquo;: A Teacher&rsquo;s Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students | Common Dreams<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wondered whether giving more than 10 minutes of every class period to reading books of our own choosing was a good idea or not. But you loved it so. You asked for more time. Ask again; I will give you whatever you need. I will also give you the best advice I can, advice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6fw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}