{"id":243,"date":"2015-04-26T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=243"},"modified":"2015-04-26T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:05:04","slug":"ive-finally-got-that-rhyme-i-was-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve finally got that rhyme I was looking for!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an upside to having been woken up at 6am on a Sunday morning: while grumpily lying in bed, unable to get back to sleep, a rhyming couplet came into my head. It\u2019s embarrassingly bad and just what I was looking for to kick off the sequel to <em>Isabella, Rotten Speller<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I have been thinking about the story-line for this sequel for months (since before I finished Isabella), but have been struggling to find a way in. By 7am, despite my sleep-deprived state, I had written the first draft for the book\u2019s opening sequence. Hurrah!<\/p>\n<p>And it looks like I have a 7 year old co-author on this one. Having listened to what I\u2019d written so far, she took my pen from me and finished the line I was working on. She then drew this rather lovely picture of Isabella\u2019s sister (name matter of some dispute):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/carolina-sketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-244 \" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/carolina-sketch-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"carolina sketch\" width=\"218\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/carolina-sketch-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/carolina-sketch-300x415.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/carolina-sketch-740x1024.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/carolina-sketch-624x864.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/carolina-sketch.jpg 1506w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo quite a productive early morning in our house today. On balance though, I would have preferred a bit more sleep!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an upside to having been woken up at 6am on a Sunday morning: while grumpily lying in bed, unable to get back to sleep, a rhyming couplet came into my head. It\u2019s embarrassingly bad and just what I was looking for to kick off the sequel to Isabella, Rotten Speller. I have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}