{"id":744,"date":"2026-07-09T04:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/the-end-of-reading-is-here-the-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:44:12","slug":"the-end-of-reading-is-here-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/the-end-of-reading-is-here-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Reading Is Here &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neuroscientist at UCLA, argues that people are losing the ability to think deeply about writing. That doesn\u2019t mean they are forgetting how to decode individual words. Rather, they are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension and synthesis. America, in other words, isn\u2019t illiterate. It\u2019s postliterate.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/2026\/08\/reading-crisis-postliterate-age\/687618\/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZyM-26EN9jpQa5BZoBCHLjE\">www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/2026\/08\/reading-crisis-postliterate-age\/687618\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neuroscientist at UCLA, argues that people are losing the ability to think deeply about writing. That doesn\u2019t mean they are forgetting how to decode individual words. Rather, they are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension and synthesis. America, in other words, isn\u2019t illiterate. It\u2019s postliterate. \u2014 Read on www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/2026\/08\/reading-crisis-postliterate-age\/687618\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,3,7,36,38],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-books","tag-consciousness","tag-reading","tag-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}