{"id":911,"date":"2017-04-23T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=911"},"modified":"2017-04-23T17:51:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T21:51:23","slug":"the-return-of-peter-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/the-return-of-peter-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Peter Rabbit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw on the syllabus we were going to be reading\u00a0<em>The Tale of Peter Rabbit<\/em>, I was beyond excited. I remember getting tucked into bed at night as a 4 year old and begging for my Dad to read me this particular story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was certainly one of those experiences (as I have addressed before in blog posts) where I was shocked to re-anaylze\u00a0a childhood story. Honestly, I didn&#8217;t really remember what the story was about &#8211; I just remembered that I had loved it. Rereading it today, I was shocked to see how strange, and actually somewhat sad, the story really is. Peter is getting chased by a man who wants to kill him, and when he escapes back home, his mother doesn&#8217;t feed him the yummy foods that she does to\u00a0his siblings&#8230; Where is the happy ending? I digress.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, aside from that initial &#8220;plot surprise&#8221;, I did enjoy my time\u00a0paging through the tiny \u00a0book once again. I love\u00a0the small drawings splashed onto the pages.\u00a0They are simplistic, gentle, and perfectly sized for the book. I&#8217;m excited to see\u00a0where our conversation in class this week takes us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw on the syllabus we were going to be reading\u00a0The Tale of Peter Rabbit, I was beyond excited. I remember getting tucked into bed at night as a 4 year old and begging for my Dad to read me this particular story&#8230; It was certainly one of those experiences (as I have addressed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/the-return-of-peter-rabbit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Return of Peter Rabbit!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}