{"id":1356,"date":"2014-11-16T04:46:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T04:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2014-11-16T04:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T04:48:17","slug":"the-giant-jam-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"The Giant Jam Sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3361.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3361-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3361\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3361-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3361-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3361-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This rhyming book reminds me a bit of <em>The Snatchabook<\/em>.  But just a bit.  Instead of one cute little (albeit book snatching) critter flying into a town called Burrow Down, here four million (not at all little or cute) wasps swarm a town called Itching Down.  And instead of concluding with understanding and acceptance, this tall tale ends with a mighty squashing.  The residents lure the wasps into the giant sandwich of the title and then:   <\/p>\n<p><em>What became of the sandwich?  Well,<br \/>\nIn Itching Down they like to tell<br \/>\nHow the birds flew off with it in their beaks<br \/>\nAnd had a feast for a hundred weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Author:  Janet Burroway<br \/>\nIllustrator:  John Vernon Lord<\/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=0395442370&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>This rhyming book reminds me a bit of The Snatchabook. But just a bit. Instead of one cute little (albeit book snatching) critter flying into a town called Burrow Down, here four million (not at all little or cute) wasps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1356\">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":[119,40,506,505,31,10,464,504,428],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","tag-animals","tag-food","tag-janet-burroway","tag-john-vernon-lord","tag-knitting","tag-machines","tag-tall-tale","tag-the-giant-jam-sandwich","tag-the-snatchabook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","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=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}