{"id":7628,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=7628"},"modified":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"i-will-not-eat-latkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=7628","title":{"rendered":"I WILL NOT EAT LATKES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Potchky, a ring-tailed lemur, is a fussy eater; pal Nosh, a koala, is a more willing gourmet. Nosh wants to make latkes (Potchky: \u201cWhat are latkes?\u201d Nosh: \u201cYummy potato pancakes\u201d) but Potchky whines: \u201cThe only potatoes I like are potato chips.\u201d Potchky agrees to help Nosh prepare the treats but objects to the color of the peeled potatoes. The lemur soon gives up on cooking altogether, preferring to set up the menorah and read a holiday book. Once the latkes are ready, Potchky refuses to taste them: \u201cThey are brown and mucky, yucky, rusty, fried mud pies!\u201d Nosh is patient, though, and when Potchky asks if Judah Maccabee, the hero of the Hanukkah story, ate latkes, Nosh answers: \u201cI do not know, Potchky. But I think he would be brave and try one.\u201d Success! But will Potchky be courageous enough to try the sufganiyot Nosh has also prepared? Relying on comic book\u2013like panels and speech bubbles, this tale depicts amusingly expressive animals, with Yiddish words for names. Warm tones enliven the page backgrounds. Gently soothing Nosh and dramatic Potchky have an appealing, opposites-attract dynamic, reminiscent of Arnold Lobel\u2019s Frog and Toad. Readers will appreciate that Nosh is never pushy, giving Potchky plenty of space and autonomy. Though information on Hanukkah is appended (along with a recipe and science experiment), the story itself assumes some familiarity with the festivities. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potchky, a ring-tailed lemur, is a fussy eater; pal Nosh, a koala, is a more willing gourmet. Nosh wants to make latkes (Potchky: \u201cWhat are latkes?\u201d Nosh: \u201cYummy potato pancakes\u201d) but Potchky whines: \u201cThe only potatoes I like are potato chips.\u201d Potchky agrees to help Nosh prepare the treats but objects to the color of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7628","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\/7628"}],"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=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}