{"id":216,"date":"2006-04-10T23:48:17","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T03:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/10\/eragon-eldest\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T20:59:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:59:54","slug":"eragon-eldest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/10\/eragon-eldest\/","title":{"rendered":"Eragon &#038; Eldest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mshepherd.com\/images\/eragon1.jpg\" alt=\"Eldest\" align=\"right\"\/>My oldest son Erick has always been a voracious reader, more so than I could have hoped.  Many a day I&#8217;ve seen him holed away in his room engrossed in a thick book and I feel the pride only a parent can experience knowing their child has a love for reading.  I&#8217;ve noticed his comprehension far exceeds my own and his vocabulary is expanding exponentially!<\/p>\n<p>His two favorite books are Eragon &#038; Eldest by Christopher Paolini.  These aren&#8217;t your typical flimsy comic book thickness reads.  We&#8217;re talking hard back &#038; thick as the Bible epics.  After reading the books multiple times, he discovered that audio-book versions were available and proceeded to beg.  After obtaining the audio-books and wearing them out for another several reads, he began to pester me to listen to them.  I brushed him off because I was too busy with other books at the time (**cough** Harry Potter **cough**) but finally, I relented.  <\/p>\n<p>Wow!  I must say that I was deeply impressed.  This Christopher Paolini truly has a gift for writing!  I found myself totally involved and now I&#8217;m waiting on book #3 (It&#8217;s a Trilogy).  The icing on the cake is that apparently this guy&#8217;s talent has not gone unnoticed and there is a movie in the works which I will be sure to watch when it&#8217;s released.<\/p>\n<p>Out of curiosity, I searched the Web and found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shurtugal.com\/\"target=_blank>fan sight<\/a>.  Imagine my surprise when I discovered Paolini was home schooled and wrote and conceived much of the books in his early teen years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My oldest son Erick has always been a voracious reader, more so than I could have hoped. Many a day I&#8217;ve seen him holed away in his room engrossed in a thick book and I feel the pride only a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/10\/eragon-eldest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}