{"id":6594,"date":"2016-11-19T00:48:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T06:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6594"},"modified":"2017-02-07T20:49:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T02:49:48","slug":"active-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6594","title":{"rendered":"ACTIVE READING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I regularly get asked to recommend books which is a privilege and delight.\u00a0 Less frequently, I am asked what process\/strategies I use for reading.\u00a0 When I do, I mention the following.\u00a0 Books are not created equally so lesser lights don&#8217;t get the following treatment, but many do.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is my copy of the wonderful <em>Melville: His World and Work<\/em> by Andrew Delbanco.\u00a0 I am very interested in the challenges to the Christian faith that arose in the nineteenth century America.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For years, I&#8217;ve used a red pencil to highlight and either a black pen or pencil for marginal notes.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t always make an index as in the second photo, but it is not uncommon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?attachment_id=6599\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo-11-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo-11\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo-11-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo-11-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo-11-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo-11-1-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?attachment_id=6600\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo-21-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo-21\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo-21-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo-21-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo-21-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/photo-21-1-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly get asked to recommend books which is a privilege and delight.\u00a0 Less frequently, I am asked what process\/strategies I use for reading.\u00a0 When I do, I mention the following.\u00a0 Books are not created equally so lesser lights don&#8217;t get the following treatment, but many do. Here is my copy of the wonderful Melville: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6604,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}