{"id":2624,"date":"2012-10-26T17:56:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T22:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2012-10-26T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T22:56:24","slug":"open-up-the-world-to-me-that-is-what-i-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/10\/open-up-the-world-to-me-that-is-what-i-believe.html","title":{"rendered":"Open up the world to me. That is what I believe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/11\/29\/142715794\/kids-book-club-takes-tollbooth-to-lands-beyond\" target=\"_blank\"><em>After 50 years, Juster is still flummoxed as to why his book turned out to be such a success. Children surprise you, he says. When they read a book, they may experience it or appreciate it in a way that&#8217;s totally different than what the author intended. But that&#8217;s OK, he says. <strong>Sometimes writers feel like their job is to communicate a specific idea or a finite point of view. &#8220;I think the idea rather is to open up a piece of the world to a more creative encounter,&#8221; Juster says.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[emphasis mine]<\/p>\n<p>I just read Phantom Tollbooth in May&#8211;loved the wordplay. Really a LOT of fun to read as an adult. (If I read it as a child (?) I had forgotten it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 50 years, Juster is still flummoxed as to why his book turned out to be such a success. Children surprise you, he says. When they read a book, they may experience it or appreciate it in a way that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2012\/10\/open-up-the-world-to-me-that-is-what-i-believe.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-lit_quotes","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}