{"id":309,"date":"2009-03-31T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T19:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=309"},"modified":"2009-03-31T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T19:57:25","slug":"monstrous-grins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"MONSTROUS GRINS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-310\" title=\"timukmassmarket2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/timukmassmarket2.jpg\" alt=\"timukmassmarket2\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/timukmassmarket2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/timukmassmarket2-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the brand spanking new <strong>UK mass market edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\">TIM<\/a><\/strong>, published this week!<\/p>\n<p>As well as being a fair few quid cheaper than the first edition &#8211; a giant monster <strong>bargain<\/strong>, guv&#8217;nor! &#8211; on the back it&#8217;s also got some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/readerquotes.html\">the cracking comments and quotes that the book got when it first came out<\/a>. My absolute favourite is the one by <strong>Finn<\/strong>, a young gentleman who kindly wrote a shelf recommendation about <strong>TIM<\/strong> for my brilliant local independent booksellers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biggreenbookshop.com\/\"><strong>The Big Green Bookshop<\/strong><\/a>. In case you can&#8217;t see it above, it says:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;If you <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> like books with big scary monsters wrecking national monuments and giant cockroaches killing people, you will <em>not<\/em> like this book. I loved it.&#8217; Finn, 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Thank you, <strong>Finn<\/strong>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trappedbymonsters.com\/\"><strong>the monsters<\/strong><\/a> are allowing me out of the cave to visit a school tomorrow. Yes! Out of the cave! To interact with people who aren&#8217;t imaginary! -Ahem, I&#8217;m rather excited. <em>Unless<\/em>, of course, the visit turns out to be just some cruel April Fool prank of theirs, in which case I may have to batter out my poor remaining porridge brains against one of these handy stalagmites they have here. I&#8217;ll let you know one way or the other. Well, if it&#8217;s &#8220;the other&#8221; I guess I \/won&#8217;t\/ let you know, but you know what I mean. ;p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at this! It&#8217;s the brand spanking new UK mass market edition of TIM, published this week! As well as being a fair few quid cheaper than the first edition &#8211; a giant monster bargain, guv&#8217;nor! &#8211; on the back it&#8217;s also got some of the cracking comments and quotes that the book got when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}