{"id":121,"date":"2004-06-06T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-06T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2004-06-06T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-06T20:22:00","slug":"puppy-summer-by-meindert-dejong-pictures-by-anita-lobel-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2004\/06\/puppy-summer-by-meindert-dejong-pictures-by-anita-lobel-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Summer by Meindert DeJong; pictures by Anita Lobel, 1966."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeJong is a great children&#8217;s writer (<i>The Wheel on the School<\/i> and <i>Along Came a Dog<\/i> are terrific) who can turn very simple situations into understated gems. I usually like Anita Lobel&#8217;s illustrations very much. But alas, this book is somewhat less than the sum of its parts. The three puppies (Smith, Brown, &#038; Jones) are cute in both the pictures and the descriptions. But the story of Jon and Vestri&#8217;s summer vacation with Grandma and Grandpa, during which they take home the three puppies, isn&#8217;t particularly memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeJong is a great children&#8217;s writer (The Wheel on the School and Along Came a Dog are terrific) who can turn very simple situations into understated gems. I usually like Anita Lobel&#8217;s illustrations very much. But alas, this book is somewhat less than the sum of its parts. The three puppies (Smith, Brown, &#038; Jones) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}