{"id":92,"date":"2005-04-21T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2005-04-21T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T08:09:00","slug":"leaping-beauty-and-other-animal-fairy-tales-gregory-maguire-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2005\/04\/leaping-beauty-and-other-animal-fairy-tales-gregory-maguire-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaping Beauty: and Other Animal Fairy Tales &#8211; Gregory Maguire, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not as funny as I hoped it would be. These cute variations on fairy tales (&#8220;Hamster and Gerbil,&#8221; &#8220;The Three Little Penguins and the Big Bad Walrus&#8221;) rely heavily on the inherent laughter value of reworking the familiar tales. Bones are tossed to adults (the sexpot Hollywood-bound sheep in &#8220;Rumplesnakeskin&#8221; is called Norma Jean, Little Red Robin Hood&#8217;s grandma lives in a retirment apartment complex), and kids will like the irreverent humor, but it&#8217;s a little old hat after <i>Stinky Cheese Man<\/i> etc. My favorite was &#8220;Goldiefox and the Three Chickens,&#8221; which had a few bits that made me laugh out loud and also a very happy ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not as funny as I hoped it would be. These cute variations on fairy tales (&#8220;Hamster and Gerbil,&#8221; &#8220;The Three Little Penguins and the Big Bad Walrus&#8221;) rely heavily on the inherent laughter value of reworking the familiar tales. Bones are tossed to adults (the sexpot Hollywood-bound sheep in &#8220;Rumplesnakeskin&#8221; is called Norma Jean, Little [&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-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}