{"id":2466,"date":"2007-06-16T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:41","slug":"irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t normally pick up the mail at midnight, but I have been on the phone for two hours with my sister, bored through her contractions (yeah, don’t you all wish you<\/i> were bored? Apparently Baby’s not serious yet), chatting away while I paint the birdhouse I’m giving my Dad for Father’s Day. (Soap on a rope and a birdhouse. It’s a Classics year.) Anyway, I see an envelope from NY, and I think it’s my manuscript back already from copy editing (which I am expecting on Monday<\/i>), and then I see the name “Mo” scrawled on the envelope. “Ooh, Mo Willems!” I say, and rip open my signed, original Pigeon comic, and then read through the cute accompanying signed picture book.<\/p>\n

And then let out a huge yawn.<\/p>\n

The book? Of course: Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late.<\/i>
Or else she turns into a pumpkin.<\/p>\n

Thank-you, Mo and MotherReader for my 48 Hour Book Challenge prize! I shall take this to the Childcare Center at which I volunteer, and I shall read it to yon squiggly urchins.<\/p>\n

I might let them touch it.
Maybe.<\/p>\n

Good night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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