{"id":10821,"date":"2016-03-08T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10821"},"modified":"2016-09-07T10:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:44:25","slug":"reading-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10821","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0021\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1687\/25595562385_9bf0d06d8a_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0021\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1687\/25595562385_ef63fdd1b2_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0021\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garethhinds.com\/odyssey.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel<\/a><\/em> by Gareth Hinds<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Milo has been reading and re-reading this one, though it&#8217;s probably a bit above his age (recommended 12 and up) because it is a bit gory. Though, after looking through it, it was nothing we hadn&#8217;t discussed before. Of course Greek mythology is brutal. The illustrations are watercolor prints and are beautiful, and the story is accessible. Of course, I recommend kids read the original work when they are older &#8212; it was one of my favorites in high school. Just a word of warning, if you&#8217;re not okay with some partial female nudity and a few bloody war scenes, this book is not for you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"DSC_0022\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1538\/24965107984_2ab5e4dc8f_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0022\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1538\/24965107984_dd4dffab10_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0022\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have no problem with my kids reading about or seeing artwork depicting this sort of thing as long as one of us around to discuss it with them. And Milo finds the whole book captivating, leading to more questions about the classics and Greek mythology in general, a good thing! How do you feel about this sort of book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds Milo has been reading and re-reading this one, though it&#8217;s probably a bit above his age (recommended 12 and up) because it is a bit gory. Though, after looking through it, it was nothing we hadn&#8217;t discussed before. Of course Greek mythology is brutal. The illustrations are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10821\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[48,132],"class_list":["post-10821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-motherhood","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10823,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions\/10823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}