{"id":7151,"date":"2017-07-13T00:35:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T05:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2017-07-11T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:37:10","slug":"another-advantage-to-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7151","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER ADVANTAGE TO READING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s no secret that <a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/topic\/books\">reading<\/a> is good for you. Just six minutes of reading is enough to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kumon.co.uk\/blog\/reading-reduces-stress-levels\/\">reduce stress by 68%<\/a>, and numerous studies have shown that reading\u00a0keeps your brain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neurology.org\/content\/early\/2013\/07\/03\/WNL.0b013e31829c5e8a\">functioning effectively<\/a>\u00a0as you age. One study even found that elderly individuals who\u00a0read regularly are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/story?id=117588&amp;page=1#.UbIVc2RAR7t\">2.5 times less likely<\/a> to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/topic\/mental-illness\">Alzheimer&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0than their peers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The rest is here:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/99408\/science-has-great-news-for-people-who-read-actual-books#.fByIF4g1H\">https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/99408\/science-has-great-news-for-people-who-read-actual-books#.fByIF4g1H<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>HT: Jesus Creed\/Scot McKnight<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that reading is good for you. Just six minutes of reading is enough to\u00a0reduce stress by 68%, and numerous studies have shown that reading\u00a0keeps your brain functioning effectively\u00a0as you age. One study even found that elderly individuals who\u00a0read regularly are\u00a02.5 times less likely to develop Alzheimer&#8217;s\u00a0than their peers. The rest is here: [&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-7151","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\/7151","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=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7153,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions\/7153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}