{"id":697,"date":"2009-08-31T00:02:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T07:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=697"},"modified":"2009-08-31T00:02:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T07:02:32","slug":"no-more-butterflies-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"No more butterflies in the sky&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Reading Rainbow is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=112312561&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1032\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ending its 26-year run on public television<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What could be greater than a show whose purpose it was to promote reading and make it fun for kids?\u00a0 I loved watching it when I was growing up, and I looked for those books I&#8217;d seen LeVar Burton introduce.\u00a0 And it meant something to me to see kids my age talking about the books they loved.\u00a0 I wanted to <em>be<\/em> one of those kids.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a tragedy that the people in charge don&#8217;t see the value in that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But, to quote LeVar Burton, &#8220;you don&#8217;t have to take my word for it.&#8221;\u00a0 Just ask the many librarians and teachers who are struggling right now with how they can inspire children to read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The article blames No Child Left Behind for the show&#8217;s cancellation, so I guess I&#8217;ll add this to the many reasons why I dislike that particular piece of legislation.\u00a0 In the meantime, I&#8217;ll miss Reading Rainbow.\u00a0 Even though I haven&#8217;t actually watched it in years, I truly appreciated that it was there, inspiring a new generation of readers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Rainbow is ending its 26-year run on public television.<br \/>\nWhat could be greater than a show whose purpose it was to promote reading and make it fun for kids?\u00a0 I loved watching it when I was growing up, and I looked for those books I&#8217;d seen LeVar Burton introduce.\u00a0 And it meant something to me [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-literacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-bf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}