{"id":12836,"date":"2010-03-02T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/03\/02\/12836.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:06","slug":"happy-seuss-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/03\/02\/happy-seuss-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Seuss Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Happy Seuss Day!\n<p>The amazing thing about Dr. Seuss, really, is not that he wrote five of the greatest children&#8217;s books. It&#8217;s that he wrote five <I>more<\/i> of the greatest children&#8217;s books. And maybe five more after that. Around the dinner table last night, we were discussing our Top Five Dr. Seuss books, and although there was some overlap, it wouldn&#8217;t be altogether surprising if there wasn&#8217;t. And I think the spread, between three of us, was ten books or more&#8212;I don&#8217;t remember exactly who chose what, other than my Best Reader clinging to the wrongheaded belief that <I>Horton Hatches the Egg<\/i> is a more moving and profound book than <I>Horton Hears a Who<\/i>.\n<p>Well, and here&#8217;s a Top Five for me.\n<ul><li><I>Horton Hears a Who<\/i><\/li><li><i>Fox in Socks<\/i><\/li><li><i>The Sleep Book<\/i><\/li><li><i>There&#8217;s a Wocket in my Pocket<\/i><\/li><li><i>Hop on Pop<\/i><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>That is leaving off so many good books, I&#8217;ll make a different Top Five\n<ul><li><I>The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins<\/i><\/li><li><i>Ten Apples up on Top<\/i><\/li><li><i>The Foot Book<\/i><\/li><li><i>On Beyond Zebra<\/i><\/li><li><i>The Lorax<\/i><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Oh, shoot, I forgot\n<ul><li><I>Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!<\/i><\/li><li><i>The Lorax<\/i><\/li><li><i>I Can Read with my Eyes Shut<\/i><\/li><li><i>Oh, the Places You&#8217;l Go<\/i><\/li><li><i>The Sneetches<\/i> (and other stories, including the story of the North-going Zax)<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Also, there was a Grinch and a Cat and some Green Eggs and Ham. The last of which, if I&#8217;m going to be honest, would probably make a Top Five, if I had to narrow it down.\n<P>I&#8217;m curious as to your Top Fives, Gentle Reader&#8212;and if you are willing to share, are they the Top Five from having them read to you or from reading them to others? Or from reading them all on your own (big words, too)?\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger would read them on a train or in a house, although preferably not with a goat, and not in the dark, because it&#8217;s bad for my hat and makes my eyebrows get red hot.<\/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":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puff-piece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836","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=12836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19029,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions\/19029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}