{"id":1653,"date":"2014-12-15T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:12:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T18:12:40","slug":"lucky-by-david-mackintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/2014\/12\/lucky-by-david-mackintosh\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky by David Mackintosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/witness.theguardian.com\/assignment\/5459fc01e4b029a778a3848b\/1263778\">We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Books Family Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_7179.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_7179.png\" alt=\"IMG_7179.PNG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two brothers start the day in utter excitement having been told by their Mum they&#8217;re having a surprise at dinner. They spend the day trying to guess what it could be working themselves into a frenzy and convincing themselves &amp; others it is an exotic holiday to Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>When they discover what the surprise really is, the older brother is left embarrassed &amp; disappointed. Luckily with the help of his family, especially his younger brother Leo, he is able to laugh about it. A wondrously funny &amp; warm story that appealed to us all.<\/p>\n<p>The children laughed at the ideas from the over excited brothers, like a swimming pool in the back yard they don&#8217;t have, and enjoyed the quirky &amp; sometimes surreal illustrations, especially the two headed elephant. A keenly observed story with some close to home truths such as &#8220;grown-ups say things they don&#8217;t really mean&#8221; &amp; holidays spent &#8220;watching TV and arguing&#8221; had me smiling and appreciating this delightful story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote this for the Guardian Children&#8217;s Books Family Reviews Two brothers start the day in utter excitement having been told by their Mum they&#8217;re having a surprise at dinner. They spend the day trying to guess what it could be working themselves into a frenzy and convincing themselves &amp; others it is an exotic [&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-1653","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\/1653","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=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}