{"id":263,"date":"2014-01-06T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=263"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:38:54","slug":"the-ballad-of-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-266\" alt=\"IMG_1106\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1106-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1106-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1106-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1106-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happily, it is Clementine season.\u00a0 We love those sweet, juicy balls of Spanish citrus, and it is hard to eat them without humming a bit of &#8220;oh my darling, oh my darling&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Which, strangely enough, leads us to this book.\u00a0 Using the tune from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oh_My_Darling,_Clementine\">the famous western folk ballad<\/a>, this story is told from the viewpoint of a hapless would-be suitor who keeps trying (and trying) and failing to send a romantic message to his darling, Valentine (who is concurrently working on a, much more successful, surprise of her own).\u00a0 The word play is clever, the scenarios delightfully ridiculous, and it offers the opportunity for lots of dramatic interpretation (singing is optional, but lots of fun).<\/p>\n<p>Author:\u00a0 Alison Jackson<br \/>\nIllustrator:\u00a0 Tricia Tusa<\/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=0525467203&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_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>Happily, it is Clementine season.\u00a0 We love those sweet, juicy balls of Spanish citrus, and it is hard to eat them without humming a bit of &#8220;oh my darling, oh my darling&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 Which, strangely enough, leads us to this book.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=263\">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":[114,40,10,26,7,117,116,664,569],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books","tag-alison-jackson","tag-food","tag-machines","tag-out-of-print","tag-songs","tag-the-ballad-of-valentine","tag-tricia-tusa","tag-usa","tag-valentines-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}