{"id":47,"date":"2005-02-14T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T21:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/02\/14\/best-childrens-book-ever\/"},"modified":"2005-02-14T17:48:17","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T21:48:17","slug":"best-childrens-book-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/02\/14\/best-childrens-book-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Children&#8217;s Book Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a787'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the best children&#8217;s book ever.&nbsp; Not that one with demons and archangels and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">archaeopteryx <\/span>hanging out in the museum post-twilight, bathing in the fountains and gathering plastic <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">four-leaf clovers<\/span><br \/>\nfrom the astroturf.&nbsp; No, I&nbsp; mean the one with the astonishing<br \/>\nstring of meaningless, mundane coincedences leading to a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Really Bad Day<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, strange things have always happened to me, particularly ever since a fateful conversation with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sarah Ettling<\/span>.&nbsp; Often things so strange that I would never share them with other people<br \/>\nbecause, well, why bother them with meaningless impossibilities?&nbsp;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m still taking flack for showing people the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">disturbing smiley-face biscuit<\/span> that turned up under my hood the night my battery mysteriously died in the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">STAR <\/span>market parking lot.&nbsp; I should have thrown it away.<\/p>\n<p>Or so I thought at the time.&nbsp; I&#8217;m feeling more open towards the world these days, and towards humanity, and see only <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">humour <\/span>in their very unlikeliness; perhaps you will, too.&nbsp; What unlikely things have happened to you so far this year?&nbsp; <font size=\"2\">(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/stories\/storyReader$788\">read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the best children&#8217;s book ever.&nbsp; Not that one with demons and archangels and archaeopteryx hanging out in the museum post-twilight, bathing in the fountains and gathering plastic four-leaf clovers from the astroturf.&nbsp; No, I&nbsp; mean the one with the astonishing string of meaningless, mundane coincedences leading to a Really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indescribable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}