{"id":1536,"date":"2016-06-25T17:55:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2016-06-27T19:19:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T19:19:34","slug":"summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

School\u2019s out for the summer! \u00a0Well, kind of. \u00a0There\u2019s always one thing in the homework folder on the last day of school that needs to be done before the first day of school. \u00a0It\u2019s the required summer reading list for the next grade. \u00a0Thankfully, all of our children love to read so every year they go happily to the local library early in the summer with that list in hand. \u00a0This year, by the afternoon of the first day of summer vacation, my eldest daughter was already well into her first book. \u00a0She had decided she was going to read all her summer books to her horse. \u00a0When she had asked me what book I think he\u2019d like, I said, \u201cI don\u2019t know, probably anything, I mean, he\u2019s a horse<\/em>.\u201d \u00a0She wasn\u2019t amused. \u00a0She finally decided on The Horse and His Boy<\/em> by C.S. Lewis. \u00a0Well, that makes sense. \u00a0It\u2019s about the adventures of two children and their talking horses in the Land of Narnia. \u00a0Almost every day so far this summer, she brings her horse into the round pen and sits in the middle on a lawn chair with her book or slowly walks beside him in the pasture as he grazes and she reads. \u00a0She reads out loud to him for hours. \u00a0There are days she\u2019ll come in from her story time disappointed when her horse seems to her more interested in eating grass than listening. \u00a0Other times she\u2019s certain he\u2019s enjoying the book because of how he stands still quietly beside her and closes his eyes like he\u2019s deep in thought. \u00a0When he nibbled on the edge of her book, she expressed her relief that\u00a0The Horse and His Boy<\/em>\u00a0happens to be one of our own and not from the library. \u00a0One day she came to me worried about how what was said in the book may have hurt her horse’s feelings. \u00a0In The Horse and His Boy<\/em>, Bree, one of the talking horses, was captured and lived in a land as the only talking beast among \u201cdumb and witless\u201d horses. \u00a0Since our horse doesn\u2019t talk, she thought it was mean of her to have read Bree calling her horse \u201cdumb and witless.\u201d \u00a0I told her to tell him it\u2019s only fiction. \u00a0She thought that was good idea. \u00a0And off she happily went that day to pick up where she had left off in her summer reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

School\u2019s out for the summer! \u00a0Well, kind of. \u00a0There\u2019s always one thing in the homework folder on the last day of school that needs to be done before the first day of school. \u00a0It\u2019s the required summer reading list for the next grade. \u00a0Thankfully, all of our children love to read so every year they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}