{"id":569,"date":"2005-11-09T18:16:38","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T09:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2005-11-09T18:16:46","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T09:16:46","slug":"oh-those-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Oh Those Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;ve noticed that many sites are now sporting favorite lists of various types.  One of the most popular lists is of the currently reading book type.  I don&#8217;t read my books. There is a program that does the reading for you. For a long time now, I have been a fan of the Microsoft Reader which has a large list of <a href= \"http:\/\/www.mslit.com\/default.asp?mjr=FRE\">free books<\/a> on a wide array of topics.  In addition I can rest my tired eyes and let my ears do some of the work by using the <a href= \"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/reader\/developers\/downloads\/tts.asp\"> text to speech<\/a> plug-in.  Although the program probably isn&#8217;t new to most people who have been &#8220;plugged-in&#8221; to the net for any amount of time, I have found it to be a great way to &#8220;read&#8221; my book and do other things (such as cooking, laundry, etc.) at the same time. Gen Xers and Yers aren&#8217;t the only ones who know how to multi-task. People who manage households have been doing it since the beginning of time!  And this is one way that helps us do it.  Now how to get a &#8220;currently listening to&#8221; addition to the book section of blogs.  Hmmmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;ve noticed that many sites are now sporting favorite lists of various types. One of the most popular lists is of the currently reading book type. I don&#8217;t read my books. There is a program that does the reading for you. For a long time now, I have been a fan of the Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-for-newbies","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}