{"id":611,"date":"2007-06-18T04:45:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T08:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2007-06-18T05:19:31","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T09:19:31","slug":"yes-the-worm-can-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2007\/06\/yes-the-worm-can-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the worm can drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The work of Richard Scarry rests in a dear place in my heart so it was with curiousity that I followed a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kokogiak\/sets\/1425737\/\">a slideshow of the differences<\/a> between the 1963 edition and the 1991 edition of Scarry&#8217;s <em>Best Word Book Ever<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Rotton.com for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotten.com\/library\/bio\/authors\/richard-scarry\/\">an interesting bio of Scarry<\/a> (though I confess that I never needed to see the artist behind the drawings) and a great close-up look at some of his drawings.  Regardless of why Scarry changed his book (slow sales? pressure from feminist groups over the roles of female characters?), I&#8217;m still tickled by the fact that Lowly Worm actually drove <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burningideas.com\/applecar\/\">the apple car.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work of Richard Scarry rests in a dear place in my heart so it was with curiousity that I followed a link to a slideshow of the differences between the 1963 edition and the 1991 edition of Scarry&#8217;s Best Word Book Ever. Check out Rotton.com for an interesting bio of Scarry (though I confess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}