{"id":62644,"date":"2017-08-22T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62644"},"modified":"2017-08-22T07:56:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T11:56:29","slug":"london-times-twitter-will-leave-young-illiterate-says-prominent-novelist-howard-jacobson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62644","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Twitter will leave young illiterate, says prominent novelist Howard Jacobson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Booker prize-winning novelist has warned that children will be illiterate within a generation, because of the devastating impact of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Jacobson said that the combination of social media and smartphones had changed the nature of communication so completely that even he \u2014 a man who once liked nothing better than to curl up with \u201c300 densely packed pages\u201d of a late Henry James novel \u2014 now craved interruption.<\/p>\n<p>Within 20 years, \u201cwe will have children who can\u2019t read, who don\u2019t want to read\u201d, he said. \u201cI can\u2019t read any more as much as I used to. My concentration has been shot by this bloody screen. I can\u2019t do it now \u2014 I want space, I want white pages, light behind the page.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/twitter-will-leave-young-illiterate-says-howard-jacobson-k67vk8rr6#_=_\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Booker prize-winning novelist has warned that children will be illiterate within a generation, because of the devastating impact of Twitter. Howard Jacobson said that the combination of social media and smartphones had changed the nature of communication so completely<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62644\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,175,94,92,101,111,199,168,95,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-books","category-children","category-education","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-science-technology","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62645,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62644\/revisions\/62645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}