{"id":431,"date":"2010-01-01T10:42:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=431"},"modified":"2010-01-01T10:42:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:42:58","slug":"diary-of-a-wimpy-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Diary of a Wimpy Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched these books fly off the shelves at Colin&#8217;s book fair but hadn&#8217;t had a chance to read them yet.  My nephew had two of them that I read in rapid succession this week&#8230;awesome stuff.  Reminded me of this New Yorker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2006\/12\/04\/061204crat_atlarge?currentPage=all\">article <\/a>about the purpose of children&#8217;s literature, where Elizabeth Kolbert offers a split between permissive vs. protectionist visions of children&#8217;s literature.   These books are on the far side of permissive &#8212; not unlike Calvin and Hobbes &#8212; I feel like I&#8217;d have to read them with my kids to ensure that some of the jokes or activities weren&#8217;t attempted.   <\/p>\n<p>(How do you acknowledge the hilarity of your kids&#8217; comments without encouraging inappropriate language?)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched these books fly off the shelves at Colin&#8217;s book fair but hadn&#8217;t had a chance to read them yet. My nephew had two of them that I read in rapid succession this week&#8230;awesome stuff. Reminded me of this New Yorker article about the purpose of children&#8217;s literature, where Elizabeth Kolbert offers a split &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=431\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Diary of a Wimpy Kid<\/span> <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":{"_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,"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-6X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}