{"id":6332,"date":"2013-06-19T00:04:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarbear60.org\/randr\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2019-06-14T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:04:25","slug":"mgr-tour-favorite-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/mgr-tour-favorite-character\/","title":{"rendered":"MGR Tour: Favorite Character"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun idea for the month of June here at the Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour.\u00a0 We’re talking about our favorite characters.\u00a0 At first I groaned.\u00a0 It’s a fun idea, and I’ve met a lot of characters through the years that lived on in my mind after I’d finished the book.\u00a0 Holly Lisle<\/a> can do that.\u00a0 Shannon Stacey<\/a> with her Kowalski series can do that.\u00a0 Lois McMaster Bujold with her Miles Vorkosigan adventures is another who keeps a reader interested in characters.\u00a0 I’m going to travel a little further back.\u00a0 To a character I haven’t given much thought to in many years, but I’m going to say my favorite character is the dog (or dogs) in Dr. Seuss’<\/del> P. D. Eastman’s Go Dog. Go!<\/em><\/p>\n

And I just discovered something.\u00a0 All this time, I thought my favorite childhood book was a Dr. Seuss, but it’s by P. D. Eastman instead!\u00a0 Looking through the similar books on Amazon, I’m surprised to learn a lot of my favorites I thought were written by Dr. Seuss were really written by other people!\u00a0 In addition to Go Dog. Go!<\/em>, I also loved Are You My Mother?<\/em> (also by P. D. Eastman) and Put Me in the Zoo<\/em> by Robert Lopshire.\u00a0 I guess I wasn’t paying much attention to who wrote my favorite books as a pre-schooler back in the day.\u00a0 The theme, of course, was the characters were animals, and I have always related to animals more than humans.<\/p>\n

I think I’ve told this story before, but my mom and I were in an elevator together a couple of years ago.\u00a0 I don’t remember where we were, but there were two posters in the elevator.\u00a0 One of a baby in a stroller looking out with a big smile and another of (I think) a dachshund doing something.\u00a0 My mom cooed over the baby in the stroller image, and I went ga-ga for the dachshund.\u00a0 I think different people are wired differently.\u00a0 I’ve developed a mild appreciation for human babies in recent years, but I wouldn’t call it an affection.\u00a0 And it’s only come after Roxy, the stray cat we fostered for a few months, had kittens in the parlor (two of whom were Lady and Tarzan).\u00a0 I was surprised by how maternal I felt toward them.<\/p>\n

What about you?\u00a0 Are you more drawn to human or animal babies?\u00a0 Any idea why? (In my case, I’m baffled.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun idea for the month of June here at the Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour.\u00a0 We’re talking about our favorite characters.\u00a0 At first I groaned.\u00a0 It’s a fun idea, and I’ve met a lot of characters through the years that lived on in my mind after I’d finished the book.\u00a0 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merry-go-round-blog-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14698,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/14698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}