{"id":7536,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=7536"},"modified":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"no-ifs-ands-or-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=7536","title":{"rendered":"NO IFS, ANDS, OR BUTTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unseen narrator who has a story to tell is also tasked with keeping all the participants\u2019 contributions \u201cnice, polite, and appropriate for kids.\u201d Five animals assemble, along with a talking taco, a tan-skinned pirate, and a pale-skinned child astronaut. But as the narrator explains the guidelines (\u201cI want us all to agree you will follow my rules and stick to the story, no IFs, ANDs, or BUTs\u201d), the characters point to their derri\u00e8res, immediately mistaking the word but for butt. The narrator clarifies: \u201cI wasn\u2019t talking about THAT kind of butt, but actually, we can\u2019t allow those either. Especially not bare butts.\u201d Bear misunderstands: \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with MY butt?\u201d Further confusion arises as the pirate makes a booty pun; later, the curly-horned rams demand an exception for \u201chead butts.\u201d They get one, but instantly, human bottoms sprout ridiculously on every head. Fed up, the narrator eventually kicks everyone out. The cast heads for someplace with more freedom, but Woodward and Wahren still manage to produce a couple more hilarious visual and verbal jokes. Backdrops are minimal, and the narrator\u2019s tale never actually gets told. It\u2019s just homophones all the way down\u2026and even those who can\u2019t spell will chortle at the naughtiness.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unseen narrator who has a story to tell is also tasked with keeping all the participants\u2019 contributions \u201cnice, polite, and appropriate for kids.\u201d Five animals assemble, along with a talking taco, a tan-skinned pirate, and a pale-skinned child astronaut. But as the narrator explains the guidelines (\u201cI want us all to agree you will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7536","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\/7536"}],"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=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}