{"id":813,"date":"2007-07-07T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_interesting_summer_reading_blogging_idea_from_breakpoint\/"},"modified":"2007-07-07T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T18:14:00","slug":"an_interesting_summer_reading_blogging_idea_from_breakpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"An interesting Summer Reading \/ Blogging idea from Breakpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got your summer reading list planned?  If you&#8217;re looking for some interesting book suggestions, and\/or some opportunities to discuss what you&#8217;re reading with others, check out Breakpoint&#8217;s summer &#8220;Blog a Book&#8221; challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Blog-a-Book: Summer reading challenge<\/p>\n<p>Book Perhaps you heard Chuck Colson talking today about BreakPoint&#8217;s new summer reading list. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakpoint.org\/listingarticle.asp?ID=6731\" title=\"commentary\">commentary<\/a>, in case you didn&#8217;t &#8212; and here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakpoint.org\/generic.asp?ID=6615\" title=\"list\">list<\/a>, compiled of all those book suggestions we tossed around the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a challenge for those of you who love to read:<\/p>\n<p>Next week a group of us bloggers, along with two guest bloggers from our internship program, are starting &#8220;Blog-a-Book.&#8221; It&#8217;s an idea we got from Slate&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thepoint.breakpoint.org\/2007\/03\/of_all_the_gin_.html\" title=\"Blog the Bible\">Blog the Bible<\/a>&#8221; feature, although our vision is just a bit less ambitious. Each of us has selected a book from the new reading list and, for nine weeks (starting July 9), will be reading it and writing about it here on the blog.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to challenge you to join us. If you&#8217;re game, choose a book from the list and blog along with us! You can use the comment section on any of our Blog-a-Book posts to log your thoughts and impressions on what you&#8217;re reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoint.breakpoint.org\/2007\/07\/blog-a-book-sum.html\" title=\"The full blog entry is here.\">The full blog entry is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>======<\/p>\n<p><i>Personally, this elf would love to see some &#8220;book blogging&#8221; on T19 this summer, or perhaps Stand Firm?  Sarah Hey set an example recently with her marvellous post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standfirminfaith.com\/index.php\/site\/article\/3021\" title=\"Bleak House\">Bleak House<\/a>.  And yes, that post got this elf re-reading Bleak House!  I&#8217;m currently on chapter 36&#8230;! \ud83d\ude09<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got your summer reading list planned? If you&#8217;re looking for some interesting book suggestions, and\/or some opportunities to discuss what you&#8217;re reading with others, check out Breakpoint&#8217;s summer &#8220;Blog a Book&#8221; challenge. Blog-a-Book: Summer reading challenge Book Perhaps you heard<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=813\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,94,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-blogging-the-internet","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}