{"id":991,"date":"2018-05-22T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T20:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=991"},"modified":"2018-07-18T18:58:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T22:58:20","slug":"great-american-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Great American Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Great American Read begins tonight on PBS at 8 p.m. I’ll be watching it – how about you? I’ve already chosen my “my favorite” from the 100 books\u00a0 (not sure about my choice, as there were a few great options.) Anyway, here is more (from the website):<\/p>\n

THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is an eight-part series that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the prism of America\u2019s 100 best-loved novels (as chosen in a national survey). It investigates how and why writers create their fictional worlds, how we as readers are affected by these stories, and what these 100 different books have to say about our diverse nation and our shared human experience.<\/p>\n

For more information:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/the-great-american-read\/about\/show\/<\/a><\/p>\n

You can also go through Maine PBS and vote for your favorite there:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mainepublic.org\/post\/welcome-great-american-read#stream\/0<\/a><\/p>\n

Enjoy!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Great American Read begins tonight on PBS at 8 p.m. I’ll be watching it – how about you? I’ve already chosen my “my favorite” from the 100 books\u00a0 (not sure about my choice, as there were a few great options.) Anyway, here is more (from the website): THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is an eight-part … Continue reading Great American Read<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[215,418],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books-2","tag-great-american-read"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}