{"id":89,"date":"2026-10-25T10:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/the-case-for-reading-slowly\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T10:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:15:47","slug":"the-case-for-reading-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/the-case-for-reading-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case for Reading Slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somewhere along the way, reading became a race. Challenges, streaks and yearly totals turned a quiet pleasure into a tally. We understand the appeal, but we would like to make the case for the opposite: for reading slowly, rereading often and letting a good sentence sit.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sentences are not obstacles<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A novel is not a corridor to be walked through as quickly as possible. It is closer to a house, with rooms you can sit in for a while. When you slow down, you notice how a writer builds a scene, where they choose to stay silent and what they trust you to understand.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Read fewer books, but let more of each one in.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A few small habits<\/h2><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read the first page twice before moving on.<\/li><li>Keep a pencil for lines you want to find again.<\/li><li>Stop at the end of a chapter and ask what changed.<\/li><li>Give yourself permission to abandon books that are not working.<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try it with something short. <em>Notes on Paying Attention<\/em> is built for exactly this: forty brief essays, each one worth a slow morning.<\/p><p class=\"fo-demo-note wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A demo article for the Foliowick theme. The books mentioned are fictional.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why finishing fewer books, more attentively, might be the best reading resolution of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}