{"id":1292,"date":"2009-01-13T07:09:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T14:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/01\/yeah-right\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T07:09:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T14:09:13","slug":"yeah-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/13\/yeah-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah Right."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/12\/books\/12reading.html\" target=\"_blank\">from the NY Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Fiction Reading Increases for Adults<\/h1>\n<p><nyt_byline type=\" \" version=\"1.0\"><\/nyt_byline><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt\" class=\"byline\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/motoko_rich\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000066\" title=\"More Articles by Motoko Rich\">MOTOKO RICH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After years of bemoaning the decline of a literary culture in the United States, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/n\/national_endowment_for_the_arts\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000066\" title=\"More articles about National Endowment for The Arts\">National Endowment for the Arts<\/a>\u00a0says in a report that it now believes a quarter-century of precipitous decline in fiction reading has reversed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.game-machines.com\/consoles\/syspics\/wii-controller.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"265\" width=\"246\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/>The report, \u201cReading on the Rise: A New Chapter in American Literacy,\u201d being released Monday, is based on data from \u201cThe Survey of Public Participation in the Arts\u201d conducted by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/c\/census_bureau\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000066\" title=\"More articles about Census Bureau, U.S.\">United States Census Bureau<\/a>\u00a0in 2008. Among its chief findings is that for the first time since 1982, when the bureau began collecting such data, the proportion of adults 18 and older who said they had read at least one novel, short story, poem or play in the previous 12 months has risen.<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of adults reading some kind of so-called literary work \u2014 just over half \u2014 is still not as high as it was in 1982 or 1992, and the proportion of adults reading poetry and drama continued to decline. Nevertheless the proportion of overall literary reading increased among virtually all age groups, ethnic and demographic categories since 2002. It increased most dramatically among 18-to-24-year-olds, who had previously shown the most significant declines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a measurable cultural change in society\u2019s commitment to literary reading,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/g\/dana_gioia\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #000066\" title=\"More articles about Dana Gioia.\">Dana Gioia<\/a>, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. \u201cIn a cultural moment when we are hearing nothing but bad news, we have reassuring evidence that the dumbing down of our culture is not inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/12\/books\/12reading.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the NY Times Fiction Reading Increases for Adults By\u00a0MOTOKO RICH After years of bemoaning the decline of a literary culture in the United States, the\u00a0National Endowment for the Arts\u00a0says in a report that it now believes a quarter-century of precipitous decline in fiction reading has reversed. The report, \u201cReading on the Rise: A New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}