{"id":2036,"date":"2019-01-07T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2019-01-08T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:01:58","slug":"mother-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"Mother Bruce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0001-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0001-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0001-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0001-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bruce is a grumpy bear with one joy in life:  preparing and eating fancy egg recipes that he has carefully researched online.  But after a batch of (free-range organic) goose eggs hatch while he is off gathering firewood, Bruce becomes &#8220;the victim of mistaken identity.&#8221;  (&#8220;MAMA!&#8221;)  Much as he tries to get things back to normal (and he really, really tries, which is where a lot of the humor comes in), his life will never be the same.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book kicked off a series, but we never picked up the later books; by the time they came out, my boys&#8217; interest in new picture books was waning.<br><br>Author:  Ryan T. Higgins<br>Illustrator:  Ryan T. Higgins <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce is a grumpy bear with one joy in life: preparing and eating fancy egg recipes that he has carefully researched online. But after a batch of (free-range organic) goose eggs hatch while he is off gathering firewood, Bruce becomes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2036\">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":[119,314,71,702,40,705,698,701,578],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","tag-animals","tag-diverse-books","tag-e-b-white-read-aloud-award","tag-ezra-jack-keats-illustrator-honor","tag-food","tag-mother-bruce","tag-mystery-reader-books","tag-ryan-t-higgins","tag-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","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=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}