{"id":1582,"date":"2014-05-02T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:14:56","slug":"aunt-amelia-by-rebecca-cob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2014\/05\/aunt-amelia-by-rebecca-cob\/","title":{"rendered":"Aunt Amelia by Rebecca Cob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryn, Freya &amp; I wrote this review for the Guardian Family Review<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140502-161953.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140502-161953.jpg\" alt=\"20140502-161953.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little girl &amp; boy are less than impressed when they find out they are getting a babysitter, the titular Aunt Amelia. They begin the story in a &#8216;bad mood&#8217; but by the end they are all smiles. The parents leave Aunt Amelia with a long list of instructions,lucky for them she&#8217;s a firm believer that rules are made to be broken leading to a fantastically fun time.<\/p>\n<p>Bryn, feeling uncomfortable at all the rule breaking, described it as &#8220;too naughty&#8221;. Freya on the other hand giggled her way through the story, approving of such behaviour. Bryn and Freya&#8217;s reactions accurately reflect their different characters! For me, Aunt Amelia was the type of aunt I always wanted to be.<\/p>\n<p>Freya and I have read this book many times and she gleefully uses the pictures to tell me the instructions which aren&#8217;t being followed. This is a book about the joys of being a child &amp; the pure fun to be found in abandoning the rules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryn, Freya &amp; I wrote this review for the Guardian Family Review A little girl &amp; boy are less than impressed when they find out they are getting a babysitter, the titular Aunt Amelia. They begin the story in a &#8216;bad mood&#8217; but by the end they are all smiles. The parents leave Aunt Amelia [&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":[28],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-guardian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","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=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}