{"id":550,"date":"2007-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2007\/12\/02\/not-another-birthday-in-the-crew-lounge\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T00:00:00","slug":"not-another-birthday-in-the-crew-lounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Not Another Birthday in the Crew Lounge!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The comments field of this blog doesn&#8217;t allow images, otherwise&nbsp;those pasted below would have appeared in the comments on my post about &nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/blog\/660000266\/post\/700013470.html\" rel=\"noopener\">the best book I got at NCTE<\/a>, shared by an anonymous ShelfTalker reader. She says&nbsp;she is &quot;another grateful reader of today&rsquo;s expansive and exciting offerings in children&rsquo;s books [who] also keeps this hilarious gem on her shelf as a reminder of how far we&rsquo;ve come.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/articles\/blog\/660000266\/20071130\/Barbie1.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In case you can&#8217;t read the text in the&nbsp;image below, I&#8217;ll reprint it here for you:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <em>&quot;Our Denver flight is fogged in, Barbie,&quot; said Ken. &quot;I&#8217;m afraid we&#8217;ll be late taking off.&quot;<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Oh, no!&quot; said Barbie. &quot;I&#8217;ll never get to my birthday party on time. I may be spending my birthday right here in this crew lounge.&quot; Barbie looked around the lounge and sighed sadly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/articles\/blog\/660000266\/20071130\/Barbie2.JPG\" \/><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comments field of this blog doesn&rsquo;t allow images, otherwise&nbsp;those pasted below would have appeared in the comments on my post about &nbsp;the best book I got at NCTE, shared by an anonymous ShelfTalker reader. She says&nbsp;she is &#8220;another grateful reader of today&rsquo;s expansive and exciting offerings in children&rsquo;s books [who] also keeps this hilarious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}