{"id":89,"date":"2018-10-24T21:31:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2019-12-26T19:45:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T19:45:41","slug":"i-was-a-teacher-for-17-years-but-i-couldnt-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/news\/2018\/10\/24\/i-was-a-teacher-for-17-years-but-i-couldnt-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Illiteracy is a Major Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"473\" src=\"http:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100848341_corcoran_top_picture976b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100848341_corcoran_top_picture976b.jpg 660w, https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100848341_corcoran_top_picture976b-600x430.jpg 600w, https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100848341_corcoran_top_picture976b-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Corcoran grew up in New Mexico in the US during the 1940s and 50s. One of six siblings, he graduated from high school, went on to university, and became a teacher in the 1960s &#8211; a job he held for 17 years. But, as he explains here, he hid an extraordinary secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">his story breaks my heart adult illiteracy is a major problem that doesn\u2019t get addressed enough. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/stories-43700153?fbclid=IwAR1GLMgaprR3-yOLkXAGFAygEZ06lA5f0JgzXOqvzbu2iizGupZT7CHHoDY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/stories-43700153<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Corcoran grew up in New Mexico in the US during the 1940s and 50s. One of six siblings, he graduated from high school, went on to university, and became a teacher in the 1960s &#8211; a job he held for 17 years. But, as he explains here, he hid an extraordinary secret. his story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowledgecharged.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}