{"id":1090,"date":"2014-07-13T00:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T00:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:24:51","slug":"odd-and-the-frost-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Odd and the Frost Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2266.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1096\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2266-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2266\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2266-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2266-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_2266-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>There was a boy called Odd, and there was<br \/>\nnothing strange or unusual about that, not in<br \/>\nthat time or place. Odd meant <\/em>the tip of a blade<em><br \/>\nand it was a lucky name.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He was<em> odd though. At least, the other villagers<br \/>\nthought so. But if there was one thing that he<br \/>\nwasn&#8217;t, it was lucky.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This book has humans, gods, and giants. It has trickery, empathy, and friendship. There are talking animals, visions, eternal winter, and art. And it all goes by in a flash and my only wish is that this book was longer. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mousecircus.com\/bookdetails.aspx?BookID=18\">Gaiman had to keep it short, because it was written for World Book Day, but he plans to write about Odd again someday<\/a>. I hope that it is someday soon.)<\/p>\n<p>Author: Neil Gaiman<br \/>\nIllustrator: Brett Helquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a boy called Odd, and there was nothing strange or unusual about that, not in that time or place. Odd meant the tip of a blade and it was a lucky name. He was odd though. At least, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1090\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[414,416,107,637,413,427],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-books","tag-brett-helquist","tag-mythology","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-norway","tag-odd-and-the-frost-giants","tag-world-book-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}