{"id":1531,"date":"2013-06-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2013-06-21T11:03:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T16:03:53","slug":"sync-audiobooks-yes-listening-is-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"SYNC audiobooks &#8211; yes, listening IS reading!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0 time for my weekly reminder about this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiobooksync.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">free audiobooks from SYNC<\/a> so you can read with your ears!<\/p>\n<p>You only have until Wednesday June 26 to download this pair of complete audiobooks. However, you have free use of them as long as you keep them on your computer or electronic device<\/p>\n<p>And in case you&#8217;re worried that listening to audiobooks isn&#8217;t considered &#8220;real reading,&#8221; check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/olgakhazan\/2011\/09\/12\/is-listening-to-audio-books-really-the-same-as-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent <em>Forbes<\/em>\u00a0 article<\/a> on the question. (sorry for the &#8220;Forbes quote&#8221; screen you must click through to get to the article)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Once-150x150.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1768\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=1768\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Once-150x150.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"150,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Once-150&amp;#215;150\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Once-150x150.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1768\" alt=\"CD audiobook cover of Once by Morris Gleitzman read by the author published by Bolinda Audio\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Once-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Once<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nBy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morrisgleitzman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morris Gleitzman<\/a><br \/>\nRead by the author<br \/>\nPublished by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolinda.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bolinda Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Letter From Birmingham Jail<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LettersBirminghamJail.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1769\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=1769\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LettersBirminghamJail.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"150,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LettersBirminghamJail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LettersBirminghamJail.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1769\" alt=\"CD audiobook cover of Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr read by Dion Graham published by Christianaudio\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/LettersBirminghamJail.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nBy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a><br \/>\nRead by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiofilemagazine.com\/gvpages\/A2053.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Dion Graham<\/a><br \/>\nPublished by <a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\" target=\"_blank\">ChristianAudio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this audiobook pairing &#8211; a Jewish boy escaping across Nazi-occupied Poland and Dr. King&#8217;s famous letter about injustice ?<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0 time for my weekly reminder about this week&#8217;s free audiobooks from SYNC so you can read with your ears! You only have until Wednesday June 26 to download this pair of complete audiobooks. However, you have free use of them as long as you keep them on your computer or electronic device And in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[19,23],"tags":[90,127,7,11,20,16,18,49,31,12,15,21,33,8,59],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-nonfiction","tag-abandonment","tag-audiobooks","tag-beliefs","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-memories","tag-non-us-author","tag-refugees","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-survival","tag-us-author","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}