{"id":138,"date":"2004-08-07T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2025-04-25T18:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:51:56","slug":"books-glorious-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Books, glorious books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cracked on Thursday and placed an Amazon order for 5, count &#8217;em, FIVE new children&#8217;s books by Sandra Boynton.<\/p>\n<p>I am really, really tired of reading <i>The Very Busy Spider<\/i>, <i>Goodnight Moon<\/i> and dear Dog anything but <i>Goodnight Butterflies<\/i>.  By gum, there WILL be new books in this house.<\/p>\n<p>I love Sandra Boynton books.  We have <i>Dinos to Go<\/i> and the <i>Philadelphia Chickens<\/i> cd book.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, we will be getting something called <i>Moo Baa La La La<\/i> and something else called <i>BUT NOT THE HIPPOPOTAMUS<\/i> amongst others.  I am <i>very<\/i> excited, and have been checking UPS tracking twice a day.  I kind of wish I hadn&#8217;t done the Free Super Saver Shipping, but perhaps they won&#8217;t be long, having shipped from Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Moo Baa La La La!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cracked on Thursday and placed an Amazon order for 5, count &#8217;em, FIVE new children&#8217;s books by Sandra Boynton. I am really, really tired of reading The Very Busy Spider, Goodnight Moon and dear Dog anything but Goodnight Butterflies. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=138\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}