{"id":5239,"date":"2010-12-01T21:25:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/01\/how-to-sell-me-a-picture-book\/"},"modified":"2010-12-01T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T21:25:16","slug":"how-to-sell-me-a-picture-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/01\/how-to-sell-me-a-picture-book\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Sell Me a Picture Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The JCC, where SteelyKid goes to day care, is having a book sale, so the lobby has been full of books for sale the last few days as we&#8217;ve headed out. Getting SteelyKid away from the books is pretty difficult, as you would expect from our daughter.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve mostly avoided getting anything, but yesterday, I caved and bought the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Curious-George-Neighborhood-Friends-Board\/dp\/0547238754\">Curious George board book<\/a> with pull-out flaps that she latched onto. Why? This page:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-8312ed3943c702e56c9d03c19a743e6e-sm_curious_george_scientist.jpg\" alt=\"i-8312ed3943c702e56c9d03c19a743e6e-sm_curious_george_scientist.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The book is a collection of pages showing various places George goes to be curious, and has pull-out tabs showing a person associated with the place, and a thing associated with the place. I probably would&#8217;ve bought it just for having a museum and a scientist among the places and people represented, but they get extra bonus points for having the scientist not be a white-haired man, but a dark-skinned woman.<\/p>\n<p>Still with the white lab coat, alas, but you can&#8217;t win them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JCC, where SteelyKid goes to day care, is having a book sale, so the lobby has been full of books for sale the last few days as we&#8217;ve headed out. Getting SteelyKid away from the books is pretty difficult, as you would expect from our daughter. We&#8217;ve mostly avoided getting anything, but yesterday, I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/01\/how-to-sell-me-a-picture-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Sell Me a Picture Book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,339,2,11,75,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-outreach","category-personal","category-science","category-society","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}