{"id":1442,"date":"2013-09-01T21:49:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T21:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2013-09-02T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T08:30:20","slug":"how-to-wash-a-woolly-mammoth-by-michelle-robinson-and-illustrated-by-kate-hindley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2013\/09\/how-to-wash-a-woolly-mammoth-by-michelle-robinson-and-illustrated-by-kate-hindley\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson and illustrated by Kate Hindley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130902-090943.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130902-090943.jpg\" alt=\"20130902-090943.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a book which I can&#8217;t help but read with a big beaming smile. It&#8217;s only been in our possession a few days but is already one of my personal favourites.<\/p>\n<p>It is a fabulously funny how to manual about washing a mammoth (although swap mammoth with a small child &#038; it&#8217;s not to dissimilar to bath times in our house). A determined &#038; very well prepared little girl provides an excellent step by step guide on how to accomplish the fiendishly difficult task of washing a mammoth providing an excellent dose of humour to bathtimes.<\/p>\n<p>The perceptive &#038; witty illustrations are wonderful, bringing warmth, humour &#038; style to this great little story.  The children especially liked the range of hairstyles a mammoth could model while the look on the mammoths face when soap gets in his eyes is the one I dread every kids&#8217; bath time, providing me with that split second warming before the screams start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130902-091026.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130902-091026.jpg\" alt=\"20130902-091026.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book which I can&#8217;t help but read with a big beaming smile. It&#8217;s only been in our possession a few days but is already one of my personal favourites. It is a fabulously funny how to manual about washing a mammoth (although swap mammoth with a small child &#038; it&#8217;s not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,8,9],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bryn","tag-freya","tag-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}