{"id":5259,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=5259"},"modified":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"the-hoppity-wheels-on-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=5259","title":{"rendered":"THE HOPPITY WHEELS ON THE BUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Festooned with daisies, an orange-and-yellow-striped bus with bee wings attached to its top and a license plate that reads \u201cHOP2IT\u201d pulls up to the corner on a rainy spring day. Who is the driver? A dapper bunny, of course. Mills\u2019 text breaks into a familiar tune: \u201cOne hoppity bus goes SPLISH and SPLASH, \/ SPLISH and SPLASH, SPLISH and SPLASH\u2026 \/ All through the rain.\u201d After picking up three young human passengers (two are dark-skinned; one is pale-skinned), the vehicle rolls onward to the farm for a springtime festival. Ducks are quacking, dogs are digging, and hens are pecking. Every action is very spring-themed, but one obvious Easter reference sneaks in: \u201cSeven spotted eggs play HIDE and SEEK, \/ HIDE and SEEK, HIDE and SEEK.\u201d The cadence is easy to follow; those reading this aloud will need very little practice. Whitehouse keeps the scenes bouncing along with bright colors, energetic puddle splashes, and sparkly magic puffs as the rain stops and the bus flies off into the sunset toward a rainbow. Storytime friends will undoubtedly be bouncing and singing along.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festooned with daisies, an orange-and-yellow-striped bus with bee wings attached to its top and a license plate that reads \u201cHOP2IT\u201d pulls up to the corner on a rainy spring day. Who is the driver? A dapper bunny, of course. Mills\u2019 text breaks into a familiar tune: \u201cOne hoppity bus goes SPLISH and SPLASH, \/ SPLISH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}