{"id":12385,"date":"2007-12-29T21:51:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T02:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12385"},"modified":"2014-01-09T23:06:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T04:06:37","slug":"reading-writing-and-arithmetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/29\/reading-writing-and-arithmetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading, writing, and arithmetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central Connecticut State University has released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccsu.edu\/AMLC07\/Default.htm\" target=\"_blank\">its annual list of America&#8217;s Most Literate Cities<\/a>.  The study judges literacy  by analyzing newspaper circulation, the number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources,  educational attainment, and Internet resources.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s top 10  are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Minneapolis, MN<br \/>\nSeattle, WA<br \/>\nSt. Paul, MN<br \/>\nDenver, CO<br \/>\nWashington, DC<br \/>\nSt. Louis, MO<br \/>\nSan Francisco, CA<br \/>\nAtlanta, GA<br \/>\nPittsburgh, PA<br \/>\nBoston, MA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we now know that Minneapolis is &#35;1 in literacy, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2007\/12\/27\/entertainment-by-the-numbers\/\">Salt Lake City is &#35;1 in DVD purchasing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m still don&#8217;t plan on moving to either zip code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Connecticut State University has released its annual list of America&#8217;s Most Literate Cities. The study judges literacy by analyzing newspaper circulation, the number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources. This year&#8217;s top 10 are: Minneapolis, MN Seattle, WA St. Paul, MN Denver, CO Washington, DC St. Louis, MO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12386,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions\/12386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}