{"id":11557,"date":"2012-06-14T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11557"},"modified":"2012-06-12T13:49:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T18:49:16","slug":"book-report-a-childrens-garden-of-misinformation-harvested-by-art-linkletter-1965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/book-report-a-childrens-garden-of-misinformation-harvested-by-art-linkletter-1965\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>A Children&#8217;s Garden of Misinformation<\/i> harvested by Art Linkletter (1965)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0007EZ46Y\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0007EZ46Y\"\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/achildrensgardenofmisinformation.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0007EZ46Y\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0007EZ46Y\"\" target=\"_blank\">This book<\/a> collects the same sort of thing that Art Linkletter made a living on: children saying or writing funny things.  In the 1960s, he made a living pitching these things to our grandparents and great-grandparents.  And they must have eaten it up.  How wholesome were they?  <em>Very<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>By now, of course, this sort of thing has been eclipsed, sadly, by some of us making light of the stupid, silly, and uninformed things teenagers and <em>adults<\/em> say.  It was sort of cute when children said it.  But a couple episodes of the Tonight Show&#8217;s Jaywalking segments, and suddenly it&#8217;s not funny any more.<\/p>\n<p>I think the book made me smile once.  So why did I read it?  Because I finish books I start, mostly, and because it hearkens back to a more innocent time.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B0007EZ46Y&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book collects the same sort of thing that Art Linkletter made a living on: children saying or writing funny things. In the 1960s, he made a living pitching these things to our grandparents and great-grandparents. And they must have eaten it up. How wholesome were they? Very. By now, of course, this sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11560,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions\/11560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}