{"id":168199,"date":"2025-08-12T00:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=168199"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:17:05","slug":"is-the-decline-of-reading-poisoning-our-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=168199","title":{"rendered":"Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story was originally published in\u00a0The Highlight, Vox\u2019s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month,\u00a0join the Vox Membership program today. If you aren\u2019t feeling the itch yet, you will soon.\u00a0 It could come by the end of this sentence or&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/414049\/reading-books-decline-tiktok-oral-culture\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was originally published in\u00a0The Highlight, Vox\u2019s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168199-is-the-decline-of-reading-poisoning-our-politics.jpg",1200,623,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168199-is-the-decline-of-reading-poisoning-our-politics-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168199-is-the-decline-of-reading-poisoning-our-politics-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168199-is-the-decline-of-reading-poisoning-our-politics-768x399.jpg",640,333,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168199-is-the-decline-of-reading-poisoning-our-politics-1024x532.jpg",640,333,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168199-is-the-decline-of-reading-poisoning-our-politics.jpg",1200,623,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168199-is-the-decline-of-reading-poisoning-our-politics.jpg",1200,623,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168199-is-the-decline-of-reading-poisoning-our-politics-1024x532.jpg",1024,532,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168199-is-the-decline-of-reading-poisoning-our-politics-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168199-is-the-decline-of-reading-poisoning-our-politics-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}