{"id":1463,"date":"2021-01-27T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T21:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T21:43:56","slug":"favourite-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/2021\/01\/27\/favourite-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1464\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/files\/2021\/01\/Veg-dragon-300x249.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/files\/2021\/01\/Veg-dragon-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/files\/2021\/01\/Veg-dragon.png 497w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Herb the Vegetarian Dragon is a tale of dragons and knights, meat eaters and vegetarians, and one brave child.\u00a0 Herb spends his days quietly gardening in the company of a little girl.\u00a0 The king, tired of the meat-eating dragons (led by Meathook) gobbling up villagers, instructs his knights to capture all of the dragons they can and bring them to the village.\u00a0 Meathook and the others wait out the hunt in hiding.\u00a0 Herb, who is not friends with the other dragons, is captured while gardening.\u00a0 Meathook pays Herb a visit in prison telling him he will save him if he eats meat, but principled Herb refuses.\u00a0 The killing of Herb is imminent when the little girl speaks up, bravely informing the executioner and crowd that Herb isn\u2019t a meateater.\u00a0 Herb is released while sneaky Meathook is caught.\u00a0 The king tells the dragons that they must work out a plan to stop eating people, and Meathook and his followers agree to stop eating villagers.\u00a0 Herb offers to teach them gardening.<\/p>\n<p>Whether vegetarian or not, the book\u2019s over-riding message is one of tolerance and acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>Bridie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herb the Vegetarian Dragon is a tale of dragons and knights, meat eaters and vegetarians, and one brave child.\u00a0 Herb spends his days quietly gardening in the company of a little girl.\u00a0 The king, tired of the meat-eating dragons (led by Meathook) gobbling up villagers, instructs his knights to capture all of the dragons they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/2021\/01\/27\/favourite-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favourite books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animated-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/cpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}