{"id":1,"date":"2013-11-10T03:27:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T03:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/67.23.117.44\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-08-11T02:11:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T02:11:14","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"The Train they Call the City of New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Singing, good morning America, how are you?<\/em>
\n Saying, don’t you know me, I’m your native son?<\/em>
\n I’m the train they call “The City of New Orleans.”<\/em>
\n I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.<\/em><\/p>\n

My boys are fascinated by trains, dragons, knights, planes, and astronauts. Anything that involves one or more of these subjects is likely to be a hit, so I have been keeping an eye out for The Train they Call the City of New Orleans<\/em> ever since I saw a blog post<\/a> showing its beautiful artwork. The only problem was that this book is out of print and was in the three-figure price range, but the ways of Amazon are mysterious and I recently snagged a copy for its original price. It is just as beautiful as it appeared and my boys are really enjoying it (especially when I read the words instead of singing them, alas!). If you’re interested in the song that inspired the book, I particularly like John Denver’s version<\/a> (it comes from his CD on trains–which is really a good one).<\/p>\n

Author: Steve Goodman
\nIllustrator: Michael McCurdy<\/p>\n