{"id":2589,"date":"2012-07-22T21:18:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T20:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:52:30","slug":"playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2589","title":{"rendered":"Playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Playground-ebook\/dp\/B005SEKP9E\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1342988251&amp;sr=8-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PLAYGROUND-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Playground\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PLAYGROUND-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PLAYGROUND.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bought this book for my Kindle mostly because it only cost 20p but also because I was intrigued that a book by the rapper 50 Cent had such good reviews.  It&#8217;s a children&#8217;s book, or perhaps a teenager&#8217;s book given that the protagonist Butterball is thirteen years old.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the language, which reminded me a little of how they talk in The Wire.  The prose is very fresh and real; I could hear Butterball talking to me.  There is a shock in the book, which perhaps others will see coming a mile off, but it was certainly a jolt for me.  I loved the illustrations too.  I&#8217;m now wondering how much is autobiographical and how much is fiction.<\/p>\n<p>In summary this is a very cool (or should I say tight?) tale which teaches valuable lessons without being preachy.  Playground an unusual choice for me, but I was pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n<p>(30th in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought this book for my Kindle mostly because it only cost 20p but also because I was intrigued that a book by the rapper 50 Cent had such good reviews. It&#8217;s a children&#8217;s book, or perhaps a teenager&#8217;s book given that the protagonist Butterball is thirteen years old. I enjoyed the language, which reminded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3789,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/3789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}