{"id":10977,"date":"2010-04-24T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10977"},"modified":"2010-04-02T12:47:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:47:17","slug":"meyer-christoph-molly-the-popsicle-written-by-herbie-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10977","title":{"rendered":"Meyer, Christoph &#8211; Molly the Popsicle (written by Herbie Meyer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigredmill.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/molly1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Molly the Popsicle (written by Herbie Meyer)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, this really is as adorable as it looks. Herbie, just in case you can&#8217;t read that scan, is the 5 year old son of Christoph, and they join together to tell the story of the life and death of a popsicle. Molly is loving life in the freezer until she is taken out and left on the kitchen counter&#8230; and completely forgotten. What follows is a slow melting of Molly, with the finale of a picture actually drawn by Herbie. Or Christoph has significantly less artistic ability than I had given him credit for, but I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the case. Christoph finally gave in and got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twineman.com\/\">website<\/a> (but still no e-mail), so at least now you can check out his stuff more thoroughly online. Granted, this may not be a literary acheivement of any staggering significance, but it is a cute and funny story, especially if you have kids around who still like to read comics. $1.50<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/molly2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Molly the Popsicle (written by Herbie Meyer) Yes, this really is as adorable as it looks. Herbie, just in case you can&#8217;t read that scan, is the 5 year old son of Christoph, and they join together to tell the story of the life and death of a popsicle. Molly is loving life in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3111,3112,1676],"class_list":["post-10977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-christoph-meyer","tag-herbie-meyer","tag-molly-the-popsicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10985,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions\/10985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}