{"id":22199,"date":"2012-08-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/?p=22199"},"modified":"2012-08-05T00:03:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T05:03:46","slug":"summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/04\/summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_4590.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"IMG_4590\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_4590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_4590_thumb.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The girls and I have done a lot of reading this summer.&#160; We\u2019ve enjoyed snuggling up and getting lost in some really great books.&#160; Our favorite was <em>The Family Under the Bridge<\/em> By: Natalie Savage Carlson but our most recent one to finish was <em>The Cricket in Times Square<\/em> By: George Selden.&#160; On the very first page, Tucker mouse, one of the main characters, found a Lorna Doone shortbread crumb to nibble on in the subway station.&#160; We looked up Lorna Doone cookies on the iPad to see what they looked like, and I promised the girls we\u2019d go get Lorna Doones as a reward when we finished the book.&#160; After each chapter, Anna Kate would ask if it was time yet, but the time finally came this week when we finished reading all 150 pages!&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The girls enjoyed the book and anticipating what the Lorna Doones would taste like.&#160; We had fun with it\u2026 and I must admit, I did shed a few tears at the end of the book when Chester the cricket had to return to the country.&#160; The girls were laughing at me, and I usually don\u2019t cry at movies and things like that, but this was a really sweet little story that got me!&#160; Maybe because we\u2019re up against loss right now and saying good-byes.&#160; Regardless, if you\u2019re looking for a good, sweet read with your kids, I highly recommend this book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girls and I have done a lot of reading this summer.&#160; We\u2019ve enjoyed snuggling up and getting lost in some really great books.&#160; Our favorite was The Family Under the Bridge By: Natalie Savage Carlson but our most recent one to finish was The Cricket in Times Square By: George Selden.&#160; On the very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22211,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22199\/revisions\/22211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}