{"id":991,"date":"2012-09-02T00:37:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=991"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:37:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:37:38","slug":"year-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1971: <strong>Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author: Robert C. O&#8217;Brien<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1050638~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_Rats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-992\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_Rats-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_Rats-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_Rats-624x494.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_Rats.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_Rats2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-993\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_Rats2-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_Rats2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_Rats2-624x425.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_Rats2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winner of the Newbery Medal, and the book that the film \u201cThe Secret of NIMH\u201d was based on, this is the story of Mrs. Frisby\u2019s attempts (she\u2019s a mouse) to save her family with the help of rats who have escaped from a laboratory where they acquired super intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The book is part fantasy, part adventure, and part science fiction.\u00a0 Beautifully written, it\u2019s on many top children\u2019s book lists.\u00a0 The book was also supposedly inspired, according to the New York Times, by the work of \u201cDr. John B. Calhoun, an ecologist who saw in the bleak effects of overpopulation on rats and mice a model for the future of the human race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1971: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Author: Robert C. O&#8217;Brien Find it in Collins Library! Winner of the Newbery Medal, and the book that the film \u201cThe Secret of NIMH\u201d was based on, this is the story of Mrs. Frisby\u2019s attempts (she\u2019s a mouse) to save her family with the help of rats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1968-1977"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}