{"id":18472,"date":"2017-04-28T23:24:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18472"},"modified":"2017-04-28T23:24:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:24:25","slug":"dr-seuss-aka-alexander-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18472","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Seuss aka Alexander Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17042801.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nMostly Books have announced the winner of their Dr Seuss bingo competition. The display featuring Dr Seuss was put there to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Cat in the Hat &#8211; published on 12th March 1957.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17042802.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe first ever book by Dr Seuss was published in 1931, and contained schoolboy bloopers, jokes, and humour. It was illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and written under the pseudonym Alexander Abingdon. It can still be found compiled in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/65498\/see-early-work-dr-seuss-called-pocket-book-boners\">Pocket Book of Boners<\/a>. The updated word for &#8216;boner&#8217; is &#8216;blooper&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly Books have announced the winner of their Dr Seuss bingo competition. The display featuring Dr Seuss was put there to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Cat in the Hat &#8211; published on 12th March 1957. The first ever book by Dr Seuss was published in 1931, and contained schoolboy bloopers, jokes, and humour. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}