{"id":604,"date":"2014-03-27T02:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=604"},"modified":"2014-03-29T00:55:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T00:55:01","slug":"if-you-were-born-a-kitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"If You Were Born a Kitten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1564.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-596\" alt=\"IMG_1564\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1564-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1564-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1564-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1564-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This quiet book tells gestation\/birth\/baby stories for many different animals, ending with one human baby:<\/p>\n<p><em>You rode curled beneath your mother&#8217;s heart,<br \/>\ngrowing and growing. You floated in a salty sea, waiting<br \/>\nand waiting. Waiting for us who were waiting for you.<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re ready,&#8221; we said. And you were ready too.<br \/>\nSo you squeezed out, wailing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My toddlers thought babies were interesting.\u00a0 That tendency, combined with the interesting details on the various animals and gentle pictures, ensured this cozy book kept their attention during the board book years.<\/p>\n<p>Author:\u00a0 Marion Dane Bauer<br \/>\nIllustrator:\u00a0 JoEllen McAllister Stammen<\/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=0689801114&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 quiet book tells gestation\/birth\/baby stories for many different animals, ending with one human baby: You rode curled beneath your mother&#8217;s heart, growing and growing. You floated in a salty sea, waiting and waiting. Waiting for us who were waiting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=604\">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":[23,33],"tags":[119,253,255,254,26],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-books","category-non-fiction","tag-animals","tag-if-you-were-born-a-kitten","tag-joeellen-mcallister-stammen","tag-marion-dane-bauer","tag-out-of-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}