{"id":233,"date":"2009-01-22T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=233"},"modified":"2009-01-22T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T17:16:14","slug":"books-and-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Books and Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/19\/books\/19read.html?_r=1&#038;sq=obama%20books&#038;st=cse&#038;scp=2&#038;pagewanted=print\">article<\/a> with great success in my class last night.  Sadly, it&#8217;s sort of a novel concept &#8212; how do the books you read shape who you are &#8212; but the conversation about language also fueled a good conversation.  <\/p>\n<p>Kakutani quotes James Baldwin:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Language is both \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a political instrument, means, and proof of power,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the most vivid and crucial key to identity: it reveals the private identity, and connects one with, or divorces one from, the larger, public, or communal identity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No better place to start a course on literacy and adolescence, on pedagogy and schools&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used this article with great success in my class last night. Sadly, it&#8217;s sort of a novel concept &#8212; how do the books you read shape who you are &#8212; but the conversation about language also fueled a good conversation. Kakutani quotes James Baldwin: Language is both \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a political instrument, means, and proof of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Books and Obama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-3L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}