{"id":780,"date":"2021-06-12T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/?p=780"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T07:17:34","slug":"why-do-i-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/2021\/06\/12\/why-do-i-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do I Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWhy do I read?<br>I just can&#8217;t help myself.<br>I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.<br>I read to understand things I&#8217;ve never been exposed to.<br>I read when I&#8217;m crabby, when I&#8217;ve just said monumentally dumb things to the people I love.<br>I read for strength to help me when I feel broken, <br>discouraged, and afraid.<br>I read when I&#8217;m angry at the whole world.<br>I read when everything is going right. <br>I read to find hope.<br>I read because I&#8217;m made up not just of skin and bones, <br>of sights, feelings, and a deep need for chocolate, <br>but I&#8217;m also made up of words. <br>Words describe my thoughts and what&#8217;s hidden in my heart.<br>Words are alive&#8211;when I&#8217;ve found a story that I love, <br>I read it again and again, <br>like playing a favorite song over and over.<br>Reading isn&#8217;t passive&#8211;I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air,  feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they&#8217;re about to do something stupid, <br>cry with them, laugh with them.<br>Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.<br>A book is a friend. <br>You can never have too many.\u201d<br><br>By Gary Paulsen<br>(Taken from FB English Literature, 20 Nov 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fkul15-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.6435-9\/126333429_211917163634635_4284863286465413275_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&amp;ccb=1-5&amp;_nc_sid=8bfeb9&amp;_nc_ohc=vhoV3oMYYIIAX-YdsLJ&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fkul15-1.fna&amp;oh=00_AT9EUeIvuE-r3sPDPWIp6uwcG9VG_ORWaHflCPZerJxDVw&amp;oe=61F7EF1A\" alt=\"No photo description available.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy do I read?I just can&#8217;t help myself.I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.I read to understand things I&#8217;ve never been exposed to.I read when I&#8217;m crabby, when I&#8217;ve just said monumentally dumb things to the people I love.I read for strength to help me when I feel broken, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14422,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azniza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}