{"id":1821,"date":"2015-06-27T00:49:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2015-08-10T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T00:33:13","slug":"the-reluctant-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"The Reluctant Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3523.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3523-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3523\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3523-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3523-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_3523-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, Father.  It&#8217;s only a dragon.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Only a dragon?&#8221; cried his father.  &#8220;What do you mean, <\/em>only<em><br \/>\na dragon?  And how do <\/em>you<em> know so much about it?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I just do,&#8221; replied the boy.  &#8220;You know about sheep, and<br \/>\nweather, and things.  <\/em>I<em> know about dragons.  I always said that<br \/>\nthat was a dragon cave.  I always said it ought to have a dragon.<br \/>\nIn fact, I would have been surprised if you told me it <\/em>hadn&#8217;t<em><br \/>\ngot a dragon.  Now, please, just leave all this to me.  I&#8217;ll stroll<br \/>\nup tomorrow evening and have a talk with him.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stories of dragons rarely fail us; although this story is quite long (albeit slightly edited in this version), it is very charming and my youngest frequently requests it.  <\/p>\n<p>Author:  Kenneth Grahame<br \/>\nIllustrator:  Inga Moore<\/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=0763621994&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>&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, Father. It&#8217;s only a dragon.&#8221; &#8220;Only a dragon?&#8221; cried his father. &#8220;What do you mean, only a dragon? And how do you know so much about it?&#8221; &#8220;I just do,&#8221; replied the boy. &#8220;You know about sheep, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=1821\">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":[119,633,222,470,631,535,416,26,534],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","tag-animals","tag-england","tag-fairy-tale","tag-farm","tag-igna-moore","tag-kenneth-grahame","tag-mythology","tag-out-of-print","tag-the-reluctant-dragon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","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=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}