{"id":9082,"date":"2015-04-28T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9082"},"modified":"2016-09-07T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:50:31","slug":"reading-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9082","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0003\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8665\/16700594845_6c411bbd16_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0003\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8665\/16700594845_6c411bbd16_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0003\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Garden-Down-Dirt-Kate-Messner\/dp\/1452119368\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1429714377&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=up+in+the+garden+and+down+in+the+dirt\" target=\"_blank\">Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt<\/a>, by Kate Messner with art by Christopher Silas Neal<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I recently wrote a book review for\u00a0<em>The Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>about this lovely work of art. It&#8217;s perfect for this time of year when grubby little hands are eager to explore in the dirt again. Read the full review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/parenting\/wp\/2015\/04\/22\/what-were-reading-up-in-garden-and-down-in-the-dirt\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and below, a sneak peak at some of the beautiful illustrations.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0004\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8647\/16699304761_b4fc059e90_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0004\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8647\/16699304761_b4fc059e90_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0004\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0005\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8670\/16674661626_4522b047fe_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0005\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8670\/16674661626_4522b047fe_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0005\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Up in the garden, carrot plants sprout. Pea blossoms bloom. Wasps are on the prowl, and honeybees visit, legs loaded with pollen.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0006\" href=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8649\/16699558652_f22cb05ee7_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0006\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8649\/16699558652_f22cb05ee7_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0006\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a>Every page is a visual treat. Be sure to check this one out before heading into the garden with your little ones!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, by Kate Messner with art by Christopher Silas Neal I recently wrote a book review for\u00a0The Washington Post\u00a0about this lovely work of art. It&#8217;s perfect for this time of year when grubby little hands are eager to explore in the dirt again. Read the full review &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,99],"tags":[115,173,132],"class_list":["post-9082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-green-living","tag-garden","tag-green-living","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082","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=9082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9086,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9082\/revisions\/9086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}