{"id":56265,"date":"2013-07-19T11:08:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T15:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=56265"},"modified":"2014-01-26T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T04:38:10","slug":"what-reader-species-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/19\/what-reader-species-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Reader Species Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had, I admit, become a jaded infographic skeptic. No more! I said to myself. And then, one day, in the midst of a heat wave,\u00a0you run across an infographic so intriguing, so well laid-out, so <em>Linnaean<\/em>, that you think: Yes. I am a human being and man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is, etc. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laura-e-kelly.com\/creative-work\/infographics\/reader-species\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56270\" alt=\"Reader-Species-Infographic1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Reader-Species-Infographic1.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"3887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Reader-Species-Infographic1.png 700w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Reader-Species-Infographic1-158x1024.png 158w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(Click to view at original large size.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Infographic by <a href=\"http:\/\/laura-e-kelly.com\" target=\"_blank\">Laura E. Kelly<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had, I admit, become a jaded infographic skeptic. No more! I said to myself. And then, one day, in the midst of a heat wave,\u00a0you run across an infographic so intriguing, so well laid-out, so Linnaean, that you think: Yes. 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