{"id":161,"date":"2009-06-22T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T02:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2009-06-22T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T02:58:07","slug":"done-with-the-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090622-161.htm","title":{"rendered":"Done with the Dr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something special happened today<br \/>\nSomething extraordinary, something gay<br \/>\nToday I read just one picture book<br \/>\nAnd with it I took my last look<br \/>\nAt the category of Splat-egories<br \/>\nDr. Seuss wrote.<\/p>\n<p>With today&#8217;s reading of <i>Wacky Wednesday<\/i> by Dr. Seuss (as Theo LeSieg), I closed the Dr. Seuss &#8220;first readers&#8221; category.  I had already closed Dr. Seuss in the &#8220;picture books&#8221; category.  Which means that I am officially done with Dr. Seuss.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I doubt I&#8217;ll be done for long.  As I re-read several favorite Dr. Seuss stories and read a few for the first time, I couldn&#8217;t help thinking of who and how and when I might share the stories next.  It&#8217;s been fun reading Dr. Seuss to myself, but Dr. Seuss was meant to be read aloud&#8211;preferably to children, who will take delight in the made up words and not too realistic drawings.<\/p>\n<h5>Old Favorites:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><i>There&#8217;s a Wocket in my Pocket<\/i>-in which strange things show up in the most ordinary places.<\/li>\n<li><i>Green Eggs and Ham<\/i>-in which a boy discovers that Sam&#8217;s novel dish is not so bad as he originally thought.<\/li>\n<li><i>The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins<\/i>-in which a king&#8217;s pride creates a bit of trouble for a fortunate boy unfortunate enough to have 500 hats.<\/li>\n<li><i>The King&#8217;s Stilts<\/i>-in which a king plays and his kingdom crumbles, until a boy sounds the alarm to awaken him to duty again.<\/li>\n<li><i>I had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew<\/i>-in which paradise is always just around the corner (and so is a roadblock)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>New Finds:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Please Try to Remember the First of Octember<\/i>-in which all your wildest dreams come true (don&#8217;t forget to mark your calendar for the First of Octember!)<\/li>\n<li><i>The Shape of Me<\/i>-in which I celebrate the many sizes and shapes of many different &#8220;me&#8217;s&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><i>Did I ever Tell You How Lucky you are?<\/i>-in which I discover that life really could be an <i>awful<\/i> lot worse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something special happened today Something extraordinary, something gay Today I read just one picture book And with it I took my last look At the category of Splat-egories Dr. Seuss wrote. With today&#8217;s reading of Wacky Wednesday by Dr. Seuss (as Theo LeSieg), I closed the Dr. Seuss &#8220;first readers&#8221; category. I had already closed &#8230; <a title=\"Done with the Dr.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090622-161.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Done with the Dr.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}