{"id":4009,"date":"2025-04-28T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2025-04-28T10:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T14:37:06","slug":"what-were-your-favorite-books-or-stories-when-you-were-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/4009\/what-were-your-favorite-books-or-stories-when-you-were-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"What were your favorite books or stories when you were a child?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a kid, I devoured books like <em>Where the Wild Things Are<\/em> and <em>Where the Sidewalk Ends<\/em>, drawn to their sense of adventure and imagination. I loved getting lost in the chaos of <em>Cars and Trucks and Things That Go<\/em>, following every little detail on the pages, like a scavenger hunt for the best story. <em>The Giving Tree<\/em> made me feel things I didn\u2019t quite have words for yet\u2014something about love, loss, and sacrifice that stuck with me long after I closed the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there was <em>The Big Snow<\/em>, which felt quiet and patient, like watching the seasons change through a window. I liked that it wasn\u2019t just about winter\u2014it was about preparation, survival, the rhythm of nature. And dinosaurs? I couldn\u2019t get enough of them. Their size, their mystery, the idea that the world used to belong to these enormous creatures\u2014it fascinated me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back, I think these books shaped how I see the world. I still love stories that blend adventure with a little bit of melancholy. I still appreciate details, whether in a book or in life. And I still get excited about dinosaurs\u2014because some childhood loves never really fade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Favorite Books as a kid<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Where the Wild Things Are<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Where the Sidewalk Ends<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cars, and Trucks, and Things The Go<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Giving Tree<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Big Snow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Foundling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid, I devoured books like Where the Wild Things Are and Where the Sidewalk Ends, drawn to their sense of adventure and imagination. I loved getting lost in the chaos of Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, following every little detail on the pages, like a scavenger hunt for the best story. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[38,37,39],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversions","category-history","tag-culture","tag-fun","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthurian.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}