{"id":26197,"date":"2015-02-24T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=26197"},"modified":"2015-02-24T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T13:10:11","slug":"in-which-i-answer-why-adults-read-so-much-young-adult-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/02\/24\/in-which-i-answer-why-adults-read-so-much-young-adult-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Answer Why Adults Read So Much Young Adult Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian asks the riveting, entirely original, never-before asked question:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/childrens-books-site\/2015\/feb\/24\/why-are-so-many-adults-reading-ya-teen-fiction\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Why are so many adults reading YA and teen fiction<\/strong><\/span><\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I, alone, have the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Me. The brave one. Who plumbs the depths none would dare.<\/p>\n<p>I have done rigorous scientific testing with beakers.<\/p>\n<p>I have traveled the earth and gone in many caves.<\/p>\n<p>I have fought three bears.<\/p>\n<p>I have consumed exotic poisons.<\/p>\n<p>I have even been a teenager once, maybe, probably, I dunno.<\/p>\n<p>And the answer is &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>*reveals envelope*<\/p>\n<p>*opens envelope*<\/p>\n<p>*a smaller version of me climbs out*<\/p>\n<p>*the smaller version of me hands the larger version of me a microphone*<\/p>\n<p>*clears throat into mic*<\/p>\n<p>*taps mic*<\/p>\n<p>The answer is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because a lot of YA and teen fiction is really, really good<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>*flings microphone in a lake*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian asks the riveting, entirely original, never-before asked question: &#8220;Why are so many adults reading YA and teen fiction?&#8221; And I, alone, have the answer. Me. The brave one. Who plumbs the depths none would dare. I have done rigorous scientific testing with beakers. I have traveled the earth and gone in many caves. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-6Ox","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26198,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26197\/revisions\/26198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}