{"id":2302,"date":"2014-06-26T18:45:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T01:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2014-06-26T18:46:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T01:46:53","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e43-babyy-with-an-ipad-with-jason-boog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E43: Baby with an iPad with Jason Boog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2303\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/jasonboog.jpg\" alt=\"jasonboog\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/jasonboog.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/jasonboog-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Santa Monica with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonboog.com\/\">Jason Boog<\/a>, former publishing editor a Mediabistro and author of\u00a0<em>Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age.<\/em> They discuss what freaks us out about the idea\u00a0of a baby with an iPad; his project&#8217;s venerable predecessor\u00a0<em>The Read-Aloud Handbook<\/em>; the importance of the very act of reading aloud, and especially what he calls &#8220;interactive reading&#8221;; the fallacy equating amount of books read with intelligence or even knowledge that plagues children and adults alike; how reading became a proxy for well-being; his new appreciation of Los Angeles libraries developed while taking his daughter around to them; how he introduced Mark Twain to the baby; how our generation seems to have proved that kids don&#8217;t get wrecked by unlimited access to content; when, exactly, digital reading became acceptable; his move from New York to Los Angeles, and the cities&#8217; comparative reading cultures; his interest in Depression-era writers, and why on some level we still believe that to become a writer means to become poor; how we&#8217;ve become &#8220;cyborgs, in a real, genuine sense&#8221;; what we can learn by watching the first generation who could say no to books grow up; and what culture his daughter has already started introducing to him.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E43_Jason_Boog.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Santa Monica with Jason Boog, former publishing editor a Mediabistro and author of\u00a0Born Reading: Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age. They discuss what freaks us out about the idea\u00a0of a baby with an iPad; his project&#8217;s venerable predecessor\u00a0The Read-Aloud Handbook; the importance of the very act of reading aloud, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}