{"id":20070,"date":"2025-07-18T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20070\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:55:09","slug":"former-npr-only-a-game-host-bill-littlefield-pens-who-taught-that-mouse-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20070\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NPR &#8216;Only A Game&#8217; host Bill Littlefield pens &#8216;Who Taught That Mouse to Write?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billlittlefield.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Littlefield<\/a>, formerly of &#8220;Only a Game,&#8221; has published &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Taught-Mouse-Write-Other-Doggerel\/dp\/B0FBFK4R18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who Taught That Mouse to Write and Other Doggerel<\/a>,&#8221; a collection of animal rhymes illustrated by Stephen Coren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He joins host Lisa Mullins to read a few selections and talk about the book.<\/p>\n<p>Book excerpt: &#8216;Who Taught That Mouse to Write and Other Doggerel&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">By Bill Littlefield<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Copyright 2025 by Bill Littlefield and Stephen Cohen. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment aired on July 18, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Littlefield, formerly of &#8220;Only a Game,&#8221; has published &#8220;Who Taught That Mouse to Write and Other Doggerel,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-20070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}