{"id":5738,"date":"2014-05-18T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T21:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2014-05-18T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T21:02:42","slug":"new-york-times-publishes-taylor-letter-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/new-york-times-publishes-taylor-letter-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Publishes Taylor Letter to the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, May 16th, the New York Times published my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/16\/opinion\/should-young-children-learn-coding.html?action=click&amp;module=Search&amp;region=searchResults&amp;mabReward=relbias%3Aw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry595%23%2FJim+taylor+letter+to+editor&amp;_r=0\">letter to the editor<\/a> in response to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/11\/us\/reading-writing-arithmetic-and-lately-coding.html?action=click&amp;module=Search&amp;region=searchResults&amp;mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%5B%22RI%3A8%22%2C%22RI%3A18%22%5D&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2Freading%2C%2Bwriting%2C%2Barithmetic%2Band%2Bnow%2Bcoding%2F\">recent article<\/a> about the introduction of computer programming into classrooms of students as young as second grade in Mill Valley California (my home town). Said one mother of a second grader when asked why she signed him up for the class, &#8220;I&#8217;m a little afraid he&#8217;s falling behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Capture1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Capture1.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"223\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Capture1.jpg 276w, https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Capture1-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, May 16th, the New York Times published my letter to the editor in response to a recent article about the introduction of computer programming into classrooms of students as young as second grade in Mill Valley California (my home town). Said one mother of a second grader when asked why she signed him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1820],"tags":[41,751,752,412,753,352,105],"class_list":["post-5738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-children","tag-computer-literacy","tag-computer-programming","tag-education-2","tag-stem","tag-students","tag-technology-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}