{"id":7661,"date":"2020-08-24T22:31:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T03:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7661"},"modified":"2021-04-07T22:41:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T03:41:25","slug":"letter-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7661","title":{"rendered":"Letter Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Anya was first learning her letters, I made a bunch of letter monsters. They had lots of sharp teeth and look very chompy.They also all had names, stories, and adventures &#8230; I was reminded of them when someone in a parenting group asked how they could encourage their kid to learn the sounds letters made. The stories for the monsters were all letter themed &#8212; Collette works as a cabdriver &#8212; her car has &#8220;CAB&#8221; written in a big chartreuse circle. When she is done working, she cleans her car and collects anything passengers may have forgotten. She enjoys a cup of coffee in the cafeteria before heading home. When she is at home, she cares for her cat. And, yeah, drawing a toothy letter monster snugging a cat is a challenge \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=7662\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7662\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LetterMonsters.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LetterMonsters.png 380w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LetterMonsters-246x300.png 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Anya was first learning her letters, I made a bunch of letter monsters. They had lots of sharp teeth and look very chompy.They also all had names, stories, and adventures &#8230; I was reminded of them when someone in a parenting group asked how they could encourage their kid to learn the sounds letters &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[507],"tags":[1327,1328],"class_list":["post-7661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-alphabet","tag-leaning-aids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7663,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions\/7663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}