{"id":176,"date":"2008-02-11T07:33:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T11:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-02-11T07:39:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T11:39:29","slug":"a-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/a-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"A laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the teen book group meeting last Tuesday, about mid-way through our conversation on Philip Pullman&#8217;s <em>The Golden Compass<\/em>, I said to the girls attending, &#8220;So, did you guys hear which book won the award for best young adult book of the year?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Then I indulged in a big, mischievous grin, and they collectively gasped and said, &#8220;Ack!\u00c2\u00a0 Not that Antarctica book!!!!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 When I nodded, all three girls (the three who posted their thoughts on <em>The White Darkness <\/em>here a few months ago) burst into unrestrained laughter.<\/p>\n<p>I still love the book, though.\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the teen book group meeting last Tuesday, about mid-way through our conversation on Philip Pullman&#8217;s The Golden Compass, I said to the girls attending, &#8220;So, did you guys hear which book won the award for best young adult book of the year?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Then I indulged in a big, mischievous grin, and they collectively gasped &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/a-laugh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A laugh<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-groups","category-young-adult-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}