{"id":800,"date":"2017-03-02T20:50:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=800"},"modified":"2017-03-02T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T20:50:31","slug":"world-book-day-top-five-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day Top Five: 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, to mark World Book Day, I&#8217;m sharing five of the books I most wish I&#8217;d written.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re on to number four:<\/p>\n<p><strong>4:\u00a0<em>Dogs Don&#8217;t Do Ballet\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>by Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2037.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-787 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/c7406972.myzen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2037-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2037\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2037-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2037-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2037-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2037-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do I wish I&#8217;d written (and illustrated) it?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love this book. It&#8217;s funny and charming and beautifully written. But the thing I like most about it is the characterisation of Biff, the (male) dog who dreams of being a ballerina and pines away when he&#8217;s not allowed to dance. His character is beautifully written by Anna Kemp, but it is brought to life by Sara Ogilvie&#8217;s wonderful illustrations. This book makes me smile! I would like to write a character as convincing and loveable as Biff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, to mark World Book Day, I&#8217;m sharing five of the books I most wish I&#8217;d written. We&#8217;re on to number four: 4:\u00a0Dogs Don&#8217;t Do Ballet\u00a0by Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie Why do I wish I&#8217;d written (and illustrated) it?\u00a0 I love this book. It&#8217;s funny and charming and beautifully written. But the thing I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}