{"id":337,"date":"2011-03-24T22:05:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T05:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amosfamily.net:8181\/?p=337"},"modified":"2011-03-24T22:05:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T05:05:06","slug":"ella-minnow-pea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Ella Minnow Pea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what reading bug has bit me lately, but I&#8217;ve been consuming books like a voracious preying mantis.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0385722435\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=amosfmedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0385722435\">Ella Minnow Pea<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0385722435\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, by Mark Dunn is a great book. \u00a0It is a collection of letters from Ella&#8217;s family back and forth during a tumultuous time on their island. \u00a0The elders have decided that certain letters of the alphabet are no longer needed. \u00a0As they are forbidden, with the threat of death, from using these alphabetic characters they are very careful not to use them in their letters back and forth. \u00a0It becomes very interesting, and a bit unnerving, reading entire chapters without certain letters of the alphabet. \u00a0Towards the end I found myself feeling trapped, and it was truly comforting to be able to express myself using any letter I chose. \u00a0In some ways this book reminds me of Mark Twain&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plainlanguage.gov\/examples\/humor\/marktwain.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">A plan for the improvement of spelling in the English language<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I had never heard of Mark Dunn before reading a wikipedia article about the pangram &#8220;The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.&#8221; \u00a0A pangram is a phrase in which each of the letters of the alphabet is used.<\/p>\n<p>I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the English language, or the tyranny that a psycho government can press upon its citizens. \u00a0I am eager to read his other books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what reading bug has bit me lately, but I&#8217;ve been consuming books like a voracious preying mantis. Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn is a great book. \u00a0It is a collection of letters from Ella&#8217;s family back and forth during a tumultuous time on their island. \u00a0The elders have decided that certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}