{"id":423,"date":"2012-01-03T23:23:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T04:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2012-01-18T23:46:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T04:46:58","slug":"beginning-16-pages-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Beginning 16 pages in."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a very strong reader. In fact I read extremely slowly so that and having kids I don&#8217;t read to many books that aren&#8217;t written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seussville.com\/\">Dr. Seuss<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/robertmunsch.com\/\">Robert Munsch<\/a>. That being said about a year ago I decided to take on the challenge of reading a book. I decided to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hatrack.com\/osc\/books\/endersgame\/endersgame.shtml\">Ender&#8217;s Game by Orson Scott Card<\/a>. I had purchased it a few years early on a recommendation from Rob and had never gotten the time or interest to actually read it. So one day I sat down to read it wondering how far into it I would actually get before I lost interest or got to busy to get through it. Well I opened the book and began reading. I was always told the intro was written for a reason so it&#8217;s meant to be read. So I came to the Introduction and began reading it and it said &#8220;&#8230;.and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, I not only won&#8217;t stand in your way, I&#8217;ll even agree with you!&#8221;. This stopped me. I thought for a minute. It went against what I had been taught. But this was the author. He wrote it and he was giving me FULL permission to not read it before reading the book. After a minute or two thinking this over I very happily turned ahead 16 pages and began to read the book.<\/p>\n<p>I know to most this may sound foolish. Not only that I am that set in my ways that I am taken a back by not reading the intro to a book, but also by the fact that this is what stands out to me as my favorite beginning to a book. I mean really I know, it isn&#8217;t even part of the story. I realize that. What it is to me though is a glimpse into who the author might be. He isn&#8217;t completely vein and wrapped up in himself. He didn&#8217;t just write an intro to brag about himself and how genius his book is. Instead he wrote to the audience. He shared a piece of himself. He also gave some one who is set into their habits a chance to re-evaluate those habits and tho break out of their mold.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and just in case your wondering I did read the entire book&#8230;except for the intro, maybe some day I&#8217;ll go back and read it too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wpid-2012-01-03-23.17.46.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a very strong reader. In fact I read extremely slowly so that and having kids I don&#8217;t read to many books that aren&#8217;t written by Dr. Seuss or Robert Munsch. That being said about a year ago I decided to take on the challenge of reading a book. I decided to read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mic.globaljunkdrawer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}