{"id":3788,"date":"2014-01-24T14:06:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T19:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:08","slug":"the-decline-of-the-american-book-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/24\/the-decline-of-the-american-book-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decline of the American Book Lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2014\/01\/the-decline-of-the-american-book-lover\/283222\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Decline of the American Book Lover - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/c8615bb67.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 23px\">The<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 23px\">\u00c2\u00a0Pew Research Center <a href=\"http:\/\/pewinternet.org\/%7E\/media\/\/Files\/Reports\/2014\/PIP_E-reading_011614.pdf\">reported<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0last week that nearly a quarter of American adults had not read a single book in the past yea<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 23px\">r. As in, they hadn&#8217;t cracked a paperback<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 23px\">, fired up a Kindle, or even hit play on an audiobook while in the car. The number of non-book-readers has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/16582\/about-half-americans-reading-book.aspx\">nearly tripled since 1978<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2014\/01\/the-decline-of-the-american-book-lover\/283222\/\">The Decline of the American Book Lover &#8211; Jordan Weissmann &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Research Center reported last week that nearly a quarter of American adults had not read a single book in the past year. The number of non-book-readers has nearly tripled since 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,610,156,887],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-books","tag-pew","tag-reading","tag-stats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}