{"id":7875,"date":"2011-09-21T06:33:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T11:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2011-09-21T06:33:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T11:33:56","slug":"cheeky-chickens-and-other-animal-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110921-7875.htm","title":{"rendered":"Cheeky Chickens and other animal ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents of youngsters might not find Michael Ian Black&#8217;s <i>Chicken Cheeks<\/i> quite as fun as I did.<\/p>\n<p>After all, since I don&#8217;t actually <i>live<\/i> with a little one, I don&#8217;t have to put up toddler and childhood potty humor ad nauseum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110920-01.jpg\" alt=\"Chicken Cheeks Book Cover\"  width=\"276\" height=\"341\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The format of this children&#8217;s book is simple&#8211;a picture of an animal together with that animal&#8217;s name and a corresponding euphemism for that animal&#8217;s bottom.<\/p>\n<p>My favorites?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gnu Wazoo&#8221; and &#8220;Duck-Billed Platypus Gluteus Maximus&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this book breaks my parents&#8217; cardinal rule in dealing with juvenile humor: never let them know that potty talk is funny.<\/p>\n<p>But, in this case, it is. <\/p>\n<p>This book of &#8220;ends&#8221; is both amusing and imaginative.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect for maiden aunts to spoil the minds of their nieces and nephews with :-)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingmylibrary.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"images\/buttons\/reading-my-library.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Reading My Library\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m still reading my way through the children&#8217;s picture book section of my no-longer-local library. For more comments on children&#8217;s books, see the rest of my <a href=\"blog\/category\/books\/reading-my-library\">Reading My Library posts<\/a> or check out Carrie&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingmylibrary.com\/\">Reading My Library<\/a>, which chronicles her and her children&#8217;s trip through the children&#8217;s section of <i>their<\/i> local library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents of youngsters might not find Michael Ian Black&#8217;s Chicken Cheeks quite as fun as I did. After all, since I don&#8217;t actually live with a little one, I don&#8217;t have to put up toddler and childhood potty humor ad nauseum. The format of this children&#8217;s book is simple&#8211;a picture of an animal together with &#8230; <a title=\"Cheeky Chickens and other animal ends\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110921-7875.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cheeky Chickens and other animal ends<\/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":[19],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875"}],"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=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}