{"id":105,"date":"2007-06-08T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/06\/08\/baby-talk\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T11:55:08","slug":"baby-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/06\/08\/baby-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image106\" src=\"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/310.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"310.jpg\" align=\"right\"\/>I was going to blog about words again, but I found something better.  <a href=\"http:\/\/fusenumber8.blogspot.com\/\">Fuse #8<\/a> pointed me towards a fabulous read.  She picked <a href=\"http:\/\/fusenumber8.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/its-not-cricket-hee-hee.html\">one letter<\/a>, but I liked another.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDear Editor:<\/p>\n<p>It is with frustration and disappointment that I inform you that I am canceling my subscription to Babybug following the April issue. I am doing this not only because I have just passed my second birthday (on April 28!) and have begun to feel the attendant inclination toward Ladybug, your magazine for 2- to 6-year-olds. I had planned to linger among the beloved pages of my toddlerhood just a little longer, but that changed after Babybug&#8217;s dramatic drop in quality since January. Now, I&#8217;m willing to accept dancing koalas, preachy old frogs, and singing daffodils, but the strident tone adopted by so many of your characters recently (Exhibit A: &#8220;The Fluffy Duffy Bear&#8221;) has become tiresome and grating. Also, your stories too often reach facile conclusions (Exhibit B: &#8220;Singing With Our Barnyard Friends&#8221;). And the jarring deus ex machina so crudely inserted into &#8220;Monkey&#8217;s Birthday Party&#8221; was, for me, the limit. I can&#8217;t tell you how sorry I am to mark my youth&#8217;s end with so artless an issue.<\/p>\n<p>Isabella Dunwhitty<br \/>\nAge 2 years and 1 month<br \/>\nNew York, New York\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/2007\/6\/6depp.html\">McSweeney&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to blog about words again, but I found something better. Fuse #8 pointed me towards a fabulous read. She picked one letter, but I liked another. Dear Editor: It is with frustration and disappointment that I inform you that I am canceling my subscription to Babybug following the April issue. I am <a href=\"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/06\/08\/baby-talk\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readingmaterials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}