{"id":10555,"date":"2007-06-25T19:34:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T23:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/06\/25\/10555.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:30","slug":"book-report-mr-ape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/06\/25\/book-report-mr-ape\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Mr. Ape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back when I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=10019\">Babe: The Gallant Pig<\/a>, I reported mostly on the adaptation for the excellent movie, but I didn&#8217;t make it clear that I quite liked the book as well. Which I did.\n<p>Now, I happened to come across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/95548\">Mr. Ape<\/a> at the library when my Perfect Non-Reader was Not Done Playing with the Library Toys, and didn&#8217;t quite feel like starting any of the books I had taken out for myself, and thought <I>Oh, it&#8217;s a book by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/kids\/dickkingsmith\/index.html\">Dick King-Smith<\/a>, the Babe fellow. I&#8217;ll just dip into it. Probably won&#8217;t finish it, though<\/I>. And, sure enough, when I was about two-thirds of the way through, it was Time to Go, and away we went. But I took the book home. And I finished it, and I enjoyed it. And my Best Reader enjoyed it, too. And we&#8217;re reading it to our Perfect Non-Reader, and <I>she&#8217;s<\/I> enjoying it. So there&#8217;s luck.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I read Babe: The Gallant Pig, I reported mostly on the adaptation for the excellent movie, but I didn\u2019t make it clear that I quite liked the book as well. Which I did. Now, I happened to come&#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-10555","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\/10555","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=10555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16222,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions\/16222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}