{"id":148,"date":"2016-06-03T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=148"},"modified":"2016-06-04T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T12:48:38","slug":"happy-doughnut-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/03\/happy-doughnut-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Doughnut Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the first Friday in June, so that means it\u2019s time again for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Doughnut_Day\" target=\"_blank\">National Doughnut Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know two dogs who are very happy about that: Down Girl and Sit. (Yes, I know they\u2019re not real. Just humor me.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-150\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dogs_at_Fence-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Down Girl &amp; Sit illustration\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dogs_at_Fence-300x231.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dogs_at_Fence.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In <em>On the Road<\/em>, their masters pack a bag of doughnuts for a trip to the beach. But naturally Down Girl ends up with them, leaving her with a big decision to make.<\/p>\n<p>And so, in honor of National Doughnut Day, a dramatic reading:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSome dogs feel the call of the sea, but not us. We felt the call of doughnuts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sit and I nosed through our masters\u2019 bags. We found the doughnuts. There were only two. Should we eat them?<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. There were two dogs, two masters, and two doughnuts. That sounded about right.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness dogs don\u2019t know math. That makes all our decisions easy.<\/p>\n<p>We ate the doughnuts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-152\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Doughnut_bag.jpg\" alt=\"Doughnut_bag\" width=\"104\" height=\"90\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>All illustrations by Mike Reed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the first Friday in June, so that means it\u2019s time again for National Doughnut Day. I know two dogs who are very happy about that: Down Girl and Sit. (Yes, I know they\u2019re not real. Just humor me.) In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/03\/happy-doughnut-day\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30],"tags":[5,19,29],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-down-girl-and-sit","category-holidays","tag-dog","tag-down-girl-and-sit","tag-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}