{"id":147,"date":"2009-10-23T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T10:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:16:00","slug":"childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/childrens-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, it&#8217;s clear that books for children must take liberties in terms of realism. For example, we have these nice book about a small polar bear. That he befriends a small sled-dog is par for the course for such book. All fine and dandy and it makes nice reading. But this page made me go WTF:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/img_8915.jpg\" alt=\"Tarzan Polar Bear\" title=\"img_8915\" width=\"500\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-148\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A polar bear who likes to swing through the jungle. Sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>For me, this is like science fiction: It&#8217;s ok to make some wild assumptions, but then please be consistent. Don&#8217;t have him run races over ice on one page, and swinging like Tarzan on the next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, it&#8217;s clear that books for children must take liberties in terms of realism. For example, we have these nice book about a small polar bear. That he befriends a small sled-dog is par for the course for such book. All fine and dandy and it makes nice reading. But this page made me go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pet-peeves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}