{"id":3952,"date":"2011-05-11T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2011-05-09T20:45:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T00:45:42","slug":"yalpdrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=3952","title":{"rendered":"Yalpdrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Ounce, Dice, Trice<\/em> by Alastair Reid<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Grade: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amazon has been trying to sell me this book for a while, but I&#8217;ve  been burned too many times by their recommendations, so I ordered it  from the library instead. Good thing I did. It&#8217;s a fun book, but not one  I want to own, because it&#8217;s just lists of words. I read word lists all  day long. They don&#8217;t mean much. Even interesting lists become boring if  you read too many at one time, and the more there are, the less likely  they are to stay with you.<\/p>\n<p>The kinds of lists in this book include palindromes, drows (words  spelled backward), light words (e.g., Ariel, willow), heavy words (e.g,  duffle, blunderbuss), made-up words with silly definitions (e.g.,  &#8220;kinklunk,&#8221; a car going over a manhole cover). So if you&#8217;re interested  in wordplay and made-up words, then you might enjoy browsing this book  on a rainy afternoon. Parents of children old enough to appreciate  wordplay might enjoy turning the book into a game by building similar  lists with their children. My children are too young for that right now,  but I&#8217;ll keep the idea in mind for when they&#8217;re older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ounce, Dice, Trice by Alastair Reid Grade: B Amazon has been trying to sell me this book for a while, but I&#8217;ve been burned too many times by their recommendations, so I ordered it from the library instead. Good thing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=3952\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3953,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}