{"id":1256,"date":"2014-09-12T01:42:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T01:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2015-08-11T02:03:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T02:03:34","slug":"miss-bridie-chose-a-shovel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_2870.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_2870-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2870\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_2870-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_2870-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_2870-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>She could have picked a chiming clock or a porcelain figurine,<br \/>\nbut Miss Bridie chose a shovel back in 1856.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Bridie chose the shovel from the peg in the barn, and<br \/>\nshe took it to the dock, where she stepped aboard the ship.<br \/>\nShe leaned on the shovel as she rocked in the cabin while<br \/>\nshe lived on the ship on her way across the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Bridie flung the shovel with her pack on her shoulder<br \/>\nwhen she stepped off the ship in the harbor in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This quiet, beautiful book covers most of a lifetime and is a pleasure from beginning to end.<\/p>\n<p>Author:  Leslie Connor<br \/>\nIllustrator:  Mary Azarian<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=insofadog-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=0618305645&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;npa=1&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She could have picked a chiming clock or a porcelain figurine, but Miss Bridie chose a shovel back in 1856. Miss Bridie chose the shovel from the peg in the barn, and she took it to the dock, where she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1256\">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":[2],"tags":[583,314,470,541,471,636,468,10,469,467,612,26,664],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","tag-city","tag-diverse-books","tag-farm","tag-garden","tag-immigration","tag-ireland","tag-leslie-connor","tag-machines","tag-mary-azarian","tag-miss-bridie-chose-a-shovel","tag-new-york-times-notable-childrens-book","tag-out-of-print","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","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=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}