{"id":68,"date":"2015-02-15T15:22:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2015-02-16T18:18:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T18:18:01","slug":"first-experiences-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/first-experiences-of-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"First Experiences of Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/reading01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71\" src=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/reading01.png\" alt=\"reading01\" width=\"268\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent autobiographical essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/cordite.org.au\/essays\/sidestepping-the-known\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sidestepping the Known&#8221;<\/a>, published in the Cordite Poetry Review, the Australian experimental writer and new media artist Mez Breeze recollects a formative experience from her early years:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8216;When I was in my late primary school years, I was shunted into an accelerated reading program&#8230; As part of this program it was decided that I should be given special privileges in order to join the primary public library&#8230; I grabbed the first three books located there [that I could reach], all by an author I hadn\u2019t ever heard of: Brian Aldiss. The section I had stumbled into was Science Fiction. This simple act of selecting those books [written in a genre that would soon become an enduring favourite] shifted something. My life trajectory tilted&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>What are your first\/most formative memories of reading and encountering books? Was it in a library, a bookshop, or exploring the\u00a0 bookshelves at home? You can send me entries by email (edward@edwardpicot.com) or post them here as comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent autobiographical essay, &#8220;Sidestepping the Known&#8221;, published in the Cordite Poetry Review, the Australian experimental writer and new media artist Mez Breeze recollects a formative experience from her early years: &#8216;When I was in my late primary school years, I was shunted into an accelerated reading program&#8230; As part of this program it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/first-experiences-of-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Experiences of Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}