{"id":10551,"date":"2007-06-18T19:29:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T23:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/06\/18\/10551.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:30","slug":"pop-goes-the-weasel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/06\/18\/pop-goes-the-weasel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop! goes the weasel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Els Kushner over at Book, Book, Book, in reference to Father&#8217;s Day and children&#8217;s books, asks <a href=\"http:\/\/bookbk.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/dads-on-page.html\">Where are the dads?<\/a> She gives some of her favorite fathers of fiction, and I commented with a handful of my own (<I>The Borrowers<\/I>, <I>Abiyoyo<\/I>, <I>Pete&#8217;s a Pizza!<\/I>, McBroom of the <I>McBroom&#8217;s Ghost<\/I> and other stories, <I>Little Bobo<\/I>, and <I>The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death<\/I>, along with the storyteller of the <I>Just So Stories<\/I>). Still, it&#8217;s a good question.\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason why every children&#8217;s book has to have a father, or a mother for that matter, but it should be easier than it is to come up with half-a-dozen good Dads. So. Gentle Readers, which of your favorite children&#8217;s books have good dads?\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Els Kushner over at Book, Book, Book, in reference to Father\u2019s Day and children\u2019s books, asks Where are the dads? She gives some of her favorite fathers of fiction, and I commented with a handful of my own (The Borrowers,&#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":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","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=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18053,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions\/18053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}