{"id":3803,"date":"2013-09-19T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T04:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2013-09-19T22:04:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T04:04:03","slug":"the-shallows-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=3803","title":{"rendered":"The Shallows in Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley Reads, one of the country&#8217;s premier community reading programs, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/sal-pizarro\/ci_24132645\/pizarro-silicon-valley-reads-attempts-untangle-relationship-between\">announced<\/a> that its theme for 2014 will be &#8220;Books &amp; Technology: Friends or Foes?,&#8221; and I&#8217;m thrilled to report that <em>The Shallows<\/em> is one of the two books that have been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalleyreads.org\/2014-15\/news.asp\">selected<\/a>\u00a0for the program. The other is Robin Sloan&#8217;s novel\u00a0<em>Mr. Penumbra\u2019s 24 Hour Bookstore<\/em>. Silicon Valley Reads includes dozens of free events at libraries, schools, and other venues throughout Santa Clara County. I&#8217;ll be attending as many of those events as possible, including the kick-off program on January 22. If you&#8217;re in the area, I hope to have a chance to meet you. I expect the topic will spur some thought-provoking \u00a0discussions among the Valley&#8217;s residents.<\/p>\n<p>SVR will also have a kids&#8217; program related to the general theme, focusing on three books:\u00a0<em>The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore<\/em>\u00a0by William Joyce;\u00a0<em>Escape from Mr. Lemoncello\u2019s Library<\/em>\u00a0by Chris Grabenstein; and\u00a0<em>Reading Makes You Feel Good<\/em><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by Todd Parr.<\/p>\n<p>A full schedule of events will be posted soon at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalleyreads.org\/\">SVR website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley Reads, one of the country&#8217;s premier community reading programs, has announced that its theme for 2014 will be &#8220;Books &amp; Technology: Friends or Foes?,&#8221; and I&#8217;m thrilled to report that The Shallows is one of the two books that have been\u00a0selected\u00a0for the program. The other is Robin Sloan&#8217;s novel\u00a0Mr. Penumbra\u2019s 24 Hour Bookstore. [&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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}