{"id":601,"date":"2010-02-03T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2010\/02\/03\/taylor-mali-reads-reading-allowed-aloud\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:10:00","slug":"taylor-mali-reads-reading-allowed-aloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Mali Reads &#34;Reading Allowed&#34; Aloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylormali.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Mali<\/a> is pretty well known in educator circles, and I&#8217;m guessing half the world&#8217;s teachers have his poem &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taylormali.com\/index.cfm?webid=13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Teachers Make<\/a>&#8221; taped to their walls.\u00a0(If\u00a0they don&#8217;t, they should.) It was only recently, though, that I discovered his poem &#8220;Reading Allowed,&#8221; which is too good NOT to share here.<br \/>\nEmbedded below is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1rZzwIb6aPE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> of Taylor reading\u00a0&#8220;Reading Allowed&#8221; aloud. I will warn those of you watching at work that, um, the start of this poem is pretty sexy. If you&#8217;re worried someone will overhear and be offended, keep the volume low at the beginning, then turn it up! If you&#8217;re worried someone will see you blushing, then&#8230; Best watch this one at home.\u00a0 ; )<br \/>\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1rZzwIb6aPE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" quality=\"1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet Taylor Mali is pretty well known in educator circles, and I&rsquo;m guessing half the world&rsquo;s teachers have his poem &ldquo;What Teachers Make&rdquo; taped to their walls.&nbsp;(If&nbsp;they don&rsquo;t, they should.) It was only recently, though, that I discovered his poem &ldquo;Reading Allowed,&rdquo; which is too good NOT to share here. Embedded below is a video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}