{"id":29444,"date":"2022-09-07T08:18:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T12:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=29444"},"modified":"2023-01-05T16:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:49:52","slug":"the-speed-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/the-speed-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SPEED READER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I went<\/strong> <\/span>to a speed-reading workshop at the Somerset Inn.\u00a0 Somebody there was pitching the Evelyn Wood method. No thanks. Too expensive.<\/p>\n<p>DIY was my style. I got on a self-improvement kick. I was 23, living with my parents, and I sped-read\u00a0<em>Exodus<\/em> and <em>Herzog<\/em> and all the other blue classics lying around my parents&#8217; apartment.<\/p>\n<p>I could even speed-read stop signs. You see STOP<em>,<\/em> but you don\u2019t subvocalize it. You let the world imprint itself on your brain. It\u2019s hard to speed-read longer signs, like \u201cBrainard-Cedar, Next Right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could read faster but I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a speed-reading workshop at the Somerset Inn.\u00a0 Somebody there was pitching the Evelyn Wood method. No thanks. Too expensive. DIY was my style. I got on a self-improvement kick. I was 23, living with my parents, and I sped-read\u00a0Exodus and Herzog and all the other blue classics lying around my parents&#8217; apartment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-of-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30002,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29444\/revisions\/30002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}