{"id":982,"date":"2008-09-22T19:39:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T23:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2008-09-22T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T23:39:13","slug":"review-ursula-vernons-nurk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/review-ursula-vernons-nurk\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ursula Vernon&#8217;s <em>Nurk<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a <a title=\"Review: 'Nurk,' by Ursula Vernon\" href=\"http:\/\/thebookbook.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/ursula-vernonnurk.html\" target=\"_blank\">new review<\/a> up at The Book Book.<\/p>\n<p>Short version: <em>Nurk<\/em> is a children&#8217;s book (the publisher says age range 9-12). But it&#8217;s a children&#8217;s book in the same way that the <em>Shrek<\/em> movies are children&#8217;s movies. That is, parents who let their children keep this book to themselves are missing out on much subversive fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a new review up at The Book Book. Short version: Nurk is a children&#8217;s book (the publisher says age range 9-12). But it&#8217;s a children&#8217;s book in the same way that the Shrek movies are children&#8217;s movies. That is, parents who let their children keep this book to themselves are missing out on [&hellip;]<\/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,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,266],"tags":[335,337,439,493,494],"class_list":{"0":"post-982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-06_writing","7":"category-book-reviews-writing_cat","8":"tag-ursula-vernon","9":"tag-illustrators","10":"tag-book-book","11":"tag-nurk","12":"tag-childrens-lit","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-fQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}