{"id":177,"date":"2008-06-14T21:46:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=177"},"modified":"2008-06-14T21:46:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T20:46:04","slug":"no-more-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"No more library!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided today not to renew our library subscription.\u00a0 If it had been free, I might have just kept it anyway, but as we live out of town, it costs us enough that it needs justifying.\u00a0 I have a few reasons why I decided not to do it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now Antonia has an extra swimming activity, it&#8217;s proved virtually impossible to coincide our schedule with library opening hours, bearing in mind that it&#8217;s a half day activity in itself.<\/li>\n<li>When we have made it, it&#8217;s proved even harder to return the books on time.<\/li>\n<li>As the books Antonia reads or has read to her are getting longer, it&#8217;s proving less cost effective to get them from the library.\u00a0 Today, for example, I bought a novel that will probably take us several weeks to read together.\u00a0 It probably cost less than the gas to get to the library, and it&#8217;s lendable or recyclable.<\/li>\n<li>In any case, I&#8217;m finding that it&#8217;s the books Antonia lives with that really contribute something to her learning and growth.\u00a0 Books that stay in the house for a few weeks are quickly read and quickly forgotten.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided today not to renew our library subscription.\u00a0 If it had been free, I might have just kept it anyway, but as we live out of town, it costs us enough that it needs justifying.\u00a0 I have a few reasons why I decided not to do it: Now Antonia has an extra swimming activity, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No more library!<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}