{"id":1859,"date":"2020-06-14T08:08:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T08:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2020-06-16T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:24:04","slug":"cousin-tom-and-gaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"Cousin Tom, writing and reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday my cousin Tom posted a text on Facebook, introducing an experiment.&nbsp;&nbsp;The idea was, first, to check on who actually&nbsp;<em>read<\/em>&nbsp;his posts (and was willing to follow the instructions), and second, to kick-start a bit of writing (read: actual&nbsp;<em>communication<\/em>) between friends. The text asked everyone, first, to comment on the text with one word about the author, and then to copy the text and post it on his or her own Facebook spot.  Tom promised, in turn, to make a one-word comment about that friend.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost everyone among my friends was very lax about following the rules, especially the one-word part &#8212; that was good, a lot of fun, in fact.\u00a0\u00a0I read things about my past that are so completely at odds with my memory that I\u2019d have to say they weren\u2019t true!\u00a0\u00a0One person made an observation about her grandfather being someone\u2019s sister.\u00a0\u00a0Tricky.\u00a0\u00a0But perhaps more to the point, the exercise gave a bit of insight into what happens when people feel obliged to <em>write<\/em> something, as opposed to clicking preset options &#8212; including cameras.  Maybe there&#8217;s some motivational force in the prospect of reading about yourself, too, even if it&#8217;s just one word.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The image is from: <a href=\"https:\/\/thecurrent.educatorinnovator.org\/increasing-reading-comprehension-through-better-writing-assignments\">https:\/\/thecurrent.educatorinnovator.org\/increasing-reading-comprehension-through-better-writing-assignments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my cousin Tom posted a text on Facebook, introducing an experiment.&nbsp;&nbsp;The idea was, first, to check on who actually&nbsp;read&nbsp;his posts (and was willing to follow the instructions), and second, to kick-start a bit&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"Lovelock, Gaia and the World as Self-Regulating System","bgseo_description":"James Lovelock's theory of the world as a self-regulating system, Gaia, dates from quite a while ago.  Just yesterday, on Facebook, my cousin inadvertently reminded me of his long term allegiance to the idea.  The advent of  Covid - 19 coincides with the return of Gaia.   ","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,247],"tags":[329,103,141],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading","category-writing","tag-facebook","tag-reading","tag-writing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}