{"id":2327,"date":"2015-04-21T19:10:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2015-04-27T20:11:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:11:01","slug":"book-log-flora-ulysses-the-illuminated-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"Book Log : Flora &#038; Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Flora &amp; Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures<\/em> By Kate DiCamillo<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my daughter Scout, we&#8217;re a big fan of\u00a0<em>Because of Winn-Dixie,<\/em> and to a lesser extent\u00a0<em>The Tale of Despereaux,\u00a0<\/em>by the same author.<\/p>\n<p>Our nighttime reading trio also really enjoyed this whimsical tale of a squirrel turned superhero. \u00a0It&#8217;s full of strong, eccentric characters and thoughtful pacing. \u00a0I especially like that it tells a good\u00a0story without being overly reliant on the gimmick of the central premise.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt\u00a0it earns its 2014 Newberry medal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flora &amp; Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures By Kate DiCamillo Thanks to my daughter Scout, we&#8217;re a big fan of\u00a0Because of Winn-Dixie, and to a lesser extent\u00a0The Tale of Despereaux,\u00a0by the same author. Our nighttime reading trio also really enjoyed this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2327\">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":[481],"tags":[507],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","tag-book-log-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","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=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}