{"id":219,"date":"2004-05-28T20:33:22","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T20:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/05\/poop-fiction\/"},"modified":"2004-05-28T20:33:22","modified_gmt":"2004-05-28T20:33:22","slug":"poop-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/05\/28\/poop-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Poop Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found a new demographic for <a href=\"http:\/\/bighominid.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin<\/a> to bestow his enlightenment upon in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?art_id=vn20040527133547599C644483\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> article. Dude, your words are brown gold to the next generation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The content might seem off-colour to some, but potty humour is big in the world of popular children&#8217;s literature &#8211; from the Captain Underpants series to such best-selling titles as Zombie Butts From Uranus! &#8211; and some parents and authors believe the genre is attracting otherwise reluctant readers.<br \/>\n&#8220;You have to give kids something they want to read,&#8221; says Glenn Murray, an educator-turned-children&#8217;s author from Canada.<br \/>\nMurray co-wrote two books featuring Walter The Farting Dog, a flatulent pooch whose problem saves the day time and time again. The author believes his smelly protagonist is an ambassador for literacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite book about excrement is one that I read to my nursery school students called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/4591076776\/qid=1085740606\/sr=1-5\/ref=sr_1_10_5\/249-0108297-8563525\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Unchi&#8221;<\/a>, or in English, &#8220;Poop&#8221; (do you notice how no one uses this word anymore. the last time I remember hearing it was when I last watched Billy Madison). Highly recommended!<br \/>\nTo anyone who missed it, the <a href=\"http:\/\/fray.com\/drugs\/worm\/\" target=\"blank\">tapeworm story<\/a> is a must read! Pork is starting to sound a lot more appetizing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found a new demographic for Kevin to bestow his enlightenment upon in this article. Dude, your words are brown gold to the next generation: The content might seem off-colour to some, but potty humour is big in the world of popular children&#8217;s literature &#8211; from the Captain Underpants series to such best-selling titles &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2004\/05\/28\/poop-fiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}