{"id":24,"date":"2007-02-26T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/marycarolyn\/2007\/02\/26\/dumb-it-down-please\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T00:08:09","slug":"dumb-it-down-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/marycarolyn\/2007\/02\/26\/dumb-it-down-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb it down, please!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was on amazon.com today (looking for the Adam West Batman TV show on DVD, which isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t out yet, but is coming! Soon I hope, but as soon as it does, I will know because I told Amazon to alert me) and came up this little gem of a book, which my grandparents had and I used to read when I went to visit them. <\/p>\n

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In fact, my earliest memories of Little Women<\/I> come from this book, which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure my grandmother intended, or at least hoped, would teach me to be a thankful, kind, sharing person (these are, if I remember correctly the themes Little Women<\/I> is boiled down to for the purposes of this little book). But what surprised me the most about this, and other Little Women<\/I> books that focus on one girl or on aspect of the girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives, is that they are all credited to Louisa May Alcott. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pretty prominent editor credit, but even though probably nothing in these versions come directly from Little Women,<\/I> the idea presented is that this is, in essence, what Alcott wanted us to take away from the book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was on amazon.com today (looking for the Adam West Batman TV show on DVD, which isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t out yet, but is coming! Soon I hope, but as soon as it does, I will know because I told Amazon to alert … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/marycarolyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/marycarolyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/marycarolyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/marycarolyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/marycarolyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/marycarolyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/marycarolyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/marycarolyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/marycarolyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}