{"id":1584,"date":"2016-02-10T02:11:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T02:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2019-12-01T22:21:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T22:21:29","slug":"close-the-word-and-opportunity-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/close-the-word-and-opportunity-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want to close the word and opportunity gap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Start at birth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1625\" style=\"width: 1051px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1625 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/comic-strip_04_logo.png\" alt=\"Smart Coos continues their campaign to close the word gap by illustrating two stories of opportunities.\" width=\"1051\" height=\"6051\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smart Coos continues their campaign to close the word gap by illustrating two stories of opportunities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9289218266222230\" data-ad-slot=\"2581675933\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A second language is not only helpful for closing the word gap, but it is also beneficial to a child\u2019s mental development as a whole. While, in the comic, Michelle\u2019s parents read her stories and exposed her to Mandarin Chinese, John\u2019s parents faltered in their ability to boost his mental growth in the first crucial years of his life. As the comic states, \u201cyour child\u2019s first six years really matter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start at birth. &nbsp; A second language is not only helpful for closing the word gap, but it is also beneficial to a child\u2019s mental development as a whole. While, in the comic, Michelle\u2019s parents read her stories and exposed her to Mandarin Chinese, John\u2019s parents faltered in their ability to boost his mental growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-travel-language-inspirations","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5979,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/5979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}