{"id":619,"date":"2016-11-02T02:24:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T02:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2018-11-04T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:17:01","slug":"book-of-the-week-a-bear-called-paddington-by-michael-bond-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2016\/11\/02\/book-of-the-week-a-bear-called-paddington-by-michael-bond-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Week: A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bear-Called-Paddington-Michael-Bond\/dp\/0062312189\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1478050167&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=a+bear+called+paddington&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=c7d7178a61a307a996b8681a7e33bee7\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51clgmTURAL._SL250_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Around third grade I became fairly obsessed with a series of books about a bear not called Winnie. This bear came from Darkest Peru and wound up in London, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bear-Called-Paddington-Michael-Bond\/dp\/0062312189\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1478050167&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=a+bear+called+paddington&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=1f269dfde103ef5bd11d58b653e32432\">A Bear Called Paddington<\/a> lays out this stowaway&#8217;s first adventures there.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. and Mrs. Brown know their children will never forgive them if they pass up the opportunity to bring home this curious bear that&#8217;s so fond of marmalade. Besides, the strange little bear is so innocent and sweet that they can&#8217;t simply let him stay in the middle of Paddington Station.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where the disasters begin. You see (for I&#8217;m always saying you see), Paddington is a bear, and London&#8217;s full of humans. Bears don&#8217;t always know human ways and aren&#8217;t the best at following those ways.<\/p>\n<p>Although I would personally devour most of the Paddington books in one go, if you&#8217;re going to start anywhere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bear-Called-Paddington-Michael-Bond\/dp\/0062312189\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1478050167&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=a+bear+called+paddington&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=tdspeirs-20&amp;linkId=1f269dfde103ef5bd11d58b653e32432\">A Bear Called Paddington<\/a> is the place to begin. Go read this book!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=tdspeirs-20&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=0062312189\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around third grade I became fairly obsessed with a series of books about a bear not called Winnie. This bear came from Darkest Peru and wound up in London, and A Bear Called Paddington lays out this stowaway&#8217;s first adventures there. Mr. and Mrs. Brown know their children will never forgive them if they pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-book-of-the-week","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}