{"id":1340,"date":"2014-11-11T02:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T02:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2015-04-20T01:46:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T01:46:28","slug":"a-sick-day-for-amos-mcgee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"A Sick Day for Amos McGee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3347.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3347-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3347\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3347-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3347-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3347-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amos McGee works at the City Zoo.  Every day, he gets up early and rides the bus to work.  Although he has &#8220;a lot to do at the zoo,&#8221; he always makes time &#8220;to visit his good friends&#8221; (an elephant, tortoise, penguin, rhinoceros, and owl).  But one day, he awakes &#8220;with the sniffles, and the sneezes, and the chills.&#8221;  He can&#8217;t go to work.  So his good friends come to him.<\/p>\n<p>This gentle book is the reading equivalent of lemon tea with honey.  Warm, comforting, and sweet, it is good for what ails you.  (And I like to think its red balloon is a homage to another of our favorites, <em>Good Night, Gorilla<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Author:  Philip C. Stead<br \/>\nIllustrator:  Erin E. Stead<\/p>\n<p><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=1596434023&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>Amos McGee works at the City Zoo. Every day, he gets up early and rides the bus to work. Although he has &#8220;a lot to do at the zoo,&#8221; he always makes time &#8220;to visit his good friends&#8221; (an elephant, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1340\">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":[501,119,82,104,583,500,191,10,489,499],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","tag-a-sick-day-for-amos-mcgee","tag-animals","tag-bedtime","tag-caldecott-medal","tag-city","tag-erin-e-stead","tag-good-night-gorilla","tag-machines","tag-new-york-times-best-illustrated-book","tag-philip-c-stead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","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=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}