{"id":960,"date":"2008-08-11T03:09:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T07:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=960"},"modified":"2018-08-12T22:14:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T02:14:38","slug":"16397-%c2%a0-robert-mccloskey-homer-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"16397.&nbsp;(Robert McCloskey) Homer&nbsp;Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8394\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8394\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/08-08-11-READ-16397.-Robert-McCloskey-Homer-Price-pic-1.jpg\" alt=\"08-08-11 READ 16397. (Robert McCloskey) Homer Price pic 1\" width=\"116\" height=\"178\"><\/a>This was one of the \u201cchildren\u2019s clas\u00adsics\u201d, writ\u00adten in 1943, that I had glanced at as a child, but nev\u00ader actu\u00adally read. A pity. McCloskey was a gen\u00adtle humorist with a charm\u00ading style and great human empa\u00adthy, who chose to write for chil\u00addren rather than, say, sub\u00adscribers to the New York\u00ader. He was also a tal\u00adented artist, in a style rem\u00adi\u00adnis\u00adcent of Ernie Pyle. The world he writes about now seems so far away that a con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary child might have some prob\u00adlems inter\u00adpret\u00ading it. It would seem exot\u00adic, rather than com\u00adfort\u00adingly famil\u00adiar. But if you are an adult with any feel\u00ading for North Amer\u00adi\u00adcan social his\u00adtory, the child-view\u00adpoint sto\u00adries about pet skunks, donut machines, and giant balls of string will be fascinating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8395\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8395\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/08-08-11-READ-16397.-Robert-McCloskey-Homer-Price-pic-3.jpg\" alt=\"08-08-11 READ 16397. (Robert McCloskey) Homer Price pic 3\" width=\"298\" height=\"217\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8396\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8396\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/08-08-11-READ-16397.-Robert-McCloskey-Homer-Price-pic-2.jpg\" alt=\"08-08-11 READ 16397. (Robert McCloskey) Homer Price pic 2\" width=\"151\" height=\"212\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of the \u201cchildren\u2019s clas\u00adsics\u201d, writ\u00adten in 1943, that I had glanced at as a child, but nev\u00ader actu\u00adally read. A pity. McCloskey was a gen\u00adtle humorist with a charm\u00ading style and great human empa\u00adthy, who chose&nbsp;to&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=960\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,946,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-au-blog-2006","category-b-reading","category-bs-reading-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8399,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/8399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}