{"id":1506,"date":"2013-12-14T07:56:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T07:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2013-12-14T08:48:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T08:48:59","slug":"grumpy-badgers-christmas-by-paul-bright-illustrated-by-jane-chapman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2013\/12\/grumpy-badgers-christmas-by-paul-bright-illustrated-by-jane-chapman\/","title":{"rendered":"Grumpy Badger&#8217;s Christmas by Paul Bright illustrated by Jane Chapman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131214-080034.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131214-080034.jpg\" alt=\"20131214-080034.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGrumpy badger<\/p>\n<p>Out of our current stack of festive books from the library, Grumpy Badger&#8217;s Christmas has been the biggest hit.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst a forest full of happy animals getting ready for Christmas is a grumpy badger who just wants to get on with hibernating. Interruptions to his sleep from his forest friends make him grumpier &#038; grumpier but he soon realises the error of his ways  <\/p>\n<p>The fun of the story is getting to be grumpy &#038; shout out &#8216;Piffle&#8217; (Freya however prefers to shout out piffle with a great big grin on her face). The majority of christmas stories we&#8217;ve been reading are very upbeat &#038; bursting with the joys of Christmas so it&#8217;s nice to have a little bit of a contrast. There&#8217;s also someone in the household who&#8217;s not yet full of the joys if Christmas &#038; also likes his sleep&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131214-085753.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20131214-085753.jpg\" alt=\"20131214-085753.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grumpy badger Out of our current stack of festive books from the library, Grumpy Badger&#8217;s Christmas has been the biggest hit. Amongst a forest full of happy animals getting ready for Christmas is a grumpy badger who just wants to get on with hibernating. Interruptions to his sleep from his forest friends make him grumpier [&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":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","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=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}