{"id":7941,"date":"2018-04-29T03:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T08:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=7941"},"modified":"2018-04-29T03:39:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T08:39:43","slug":"readathon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=7941","title":{"rendered":"readathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/readrat2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/readrat2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"131\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7329\" align=left hspace=12 vspace=10 \/><\/a>Today I took part in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24hourreadathon.com\">Dewey&#8217;s 24-Hour Readathon<\/a>. 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