{"id":729,"date":"2010-08-24T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T05:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=729"},"modified":"2010-08-24T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T05:28:12","slug":"this-little-piggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"This Little Piggy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"51AWlXdUpKL._SL500_AA300_\"<\/a>Today is release day for Laurel Snyder’s<\/a> Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher.<\/a> I’m excited about this book for a number of reasons. One, of course, is that it’s a wonderful book. (Humor + heart + Judaism – overkill + some terrific illustrations + meaning + humor. Did I mention humor?) The other is that this is the book that introduced me to Laurel in the first place. (I’d seen the title at a conference and, sick of reading Jewish children’s books with somber, brown covers, I was ready for something FUN. Baxter — and Laurel — were definitely it.)<\/p>\n

I was tempted to go with the Gourds’ Cracklins<\/a> for my musical welcome, but ultimately that just seemed wrong, not to mention a little sick. As did Black Sabbath’s War Pigs. I finally decided it was safer to go with Les BAXTER<\/a>. No lyrics on this one, you see. And maybe Laurel’s Baxter could dance to it… <\/p>\n

Welcome, Baxter, congratulations, Laurel, and stay tuned for the release of her middle-grade, Dreadful Penny<\/a>, in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is release day for Laurel Snyder’s Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher. I’m excited about this book for a number of reasons. One, of course, is that it’s a wonderful book. (Humor + heart + Judaism – … Continue reading →<\/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":[32,8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism","category-kidlit","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}