{"id":138,"date":"2013-08-23T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=138"},"modified":"2018-03-24T17:19:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T21:19:48","slug":"brij-kothari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/brij-kothari","title":{"rendered":"Brij Kothari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brij Kothari\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/BrijKothari.jpg\" \/>Imagine if every citizen in the United States didn&#8217;t know how  to read. That&#8217;s 300MM people. That&#8217;s about the number of illiterate  citizens in India,  a nation of over a billion people.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Harris speaks with Brij Kothari, a social entrepreneur who is  tackling India&#8217;s  literacy problem through Bollywood films. His organization, Planet Read, offers  same language subtitling on television screens across India, so  people can read the words as they sing along.<\/p>\n<p>Brij describes how he is using entertainment to improve literacy, from scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if every citizen in the United States didn&#8217;t know how to read. That&#8217;s 300MM people. That&#8217;s about the number of illiterate citizens in India, a nation of over a billion people. Jessica Harris speaks with Brij Kothari, a social entrepreneur who is tackling India&#8217;s literacy problem through Bollywood films. His organization, Planet Read, offers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}