{"id":10368,"date":"2006-11-28T21:36:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T02:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/11\/28\/10368.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:40","slug":"book-report-the-fourth-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/11\/28\/book-report-the-fourth-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Fourth Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was surprised by how much I enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780670037728,00.html\">The Fourth Bear<\/a>. I hadn&#8217;t really enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=10042\">The Big Over Easy<\/a> very much, although there were funny bits. I picked it up off the new book shelf because, well, that&#8217;s the sort of guy I am. Once I start reading a series, the author has to work pretty hard to get me to stop.\n<p>As it happens, this book was substantially better than the last one. I think, in part, it was simply the happy choice of fictional theft: the inability to catch the Gingerbread man, the various inhabitants of the Quangle-Wangle&#8217;s hat, and what happened to Goldilocks after she left the Three Bears&#8217; house, and the Swiftian extraction of energy from cucumbers. Oh, and living next door to Punch and Judy; I was a little disappointed that the policeman who went to investigate the domestic violence at the Punch and Judy house didn&#8217;t meet the usual fate of such policemen, but I suppose that&#8217;s the way of things. They don&#8217;t have hanging in Nursery Crime Britain, either, so the story can&#8217;t end traditionally anyway.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised by how much I enjoyed The Fourth Bear. I hadn\u2019t really enjoyed The Big Over Easy very much, although there were funny bits. I picked it up off the new book shelf because, well, that\u2019s the sort&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17899,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10368\/revisions\/17899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}