{"id":11832,"date":"2009-01-26T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/01\/26\/11832.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:50:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:50:20","slug":"book-report-the-graveyard-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/01\/26\/book-report-the-graveyard-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Graveyard Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger is very far behind in book reports, and getting further all the time. I&#8217;m even further behind in other aspects of blogging (we had a rehearsal for <I>Bound<\/i> on Saturday), and even further than that behind on bits of my actual life.\n<p>So, I was thinking about trying to write something significant, sometime, about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollinschildrens.com\/HarperChildrens\/Kids\/BookDetail.aspx?isbn13=9780060530921\">The Graveyard Book<\/a>, which is only the second Neil Gaiman book that I have altogether liked. But finding out that they have given it the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/bookmedia\/newberymedal\/newberymedal.cfm\">Newbery Medal<\/a> seems like a spur to just post the news about the award, and note that I&#8217;ve read it, and that it&#8217;s a terrific book, and then go pay the damned bills.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is pleased by the Newbery, and by its timing, more or less.<\/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-11832","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\/11832","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=11832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18662,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11832\/revisions\/18662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}