{"id":109,"date":"2008-03-07T11:50:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T18:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=109"},"modified":"2008-03-07T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T18:50:32","slug":"oddaptation-horton-hears-a-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/03\/07\/oddaptation-horton-hears-a-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Oddaptation: Horton Hears a Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother, aka <a href=\"http:\/\/gottabook.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/oddaptation-horton-hears-who.html\">Gregory K of Gottabook<\/a> (best known for his <a href=\"http:\/\/gottabook.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/fib.html\">Fibs<\/a>) also does Oddaptations, which he describes as &#8220;Cliff&#8217;s Notes\/Spark notes of picture books&#8230; but with some attitude (and rhyme) thrown in.&#8221;  Here&#8217;s the start of his latest, which I&#8217;d describe as something of a Seussian mashup:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HORTON HEARS A WHO<br \/>\nby Dr. Seuss<br \/>\nOddaptation by Gregory K.<\/p>\n<p>Every Who down in Who-ville liked Horton a lot,<br \/>\nBut a sour kangaroo and some monkeys did NOT!<br \/>\nThey all hated Horton, who claimed there were houses<br \/>\nAnd Whos on some dust that was too small for mouses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gottabook.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/oddaptation-horton-hears-who.html\">More on Gottabook<\/a>, including the ending one reviewer described as &#8220;genius&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Go, bro!<\/p>\n<p>jon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother, aka Gregory K of Gottabook (best known for his Fibs) also does Oddaptations, which he describes as &#8220;Cliff&#8217;s Notes\/Spark notes of picture books&#8230; but with some attitude (and rhyme) thrown in.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the start of his latest, which I&#8217;d describe as something of a Seussian mashup: HORTON HEARS A WHO by Dr. Seuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[169,213,247,267],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-personal","tag-gregory-k","tag-mashups","tag-oddaptations","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}