{"id":77549,"date":"2017-12-21T09:55:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T22:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=77549"},"modified":"2017-12-28T09:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T22:53:35","slug":"zoe-foster-blake-challenge-make-fart-loveable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2017\/12\/21\/zoe-foster-blake-challenge-make-fart-loveable\/","title":{"rendered":"Zo\u00eb Foster Blake: My challenge was to make a fart loveable."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-77580 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-11-at-4.09.33-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have we ever considered how a fart feels?\u00a0Our immediate reaction is to make them feel unwelcome, but imagine if we didn&#8217;t? What lesson would we, especially children, learn? Zo\u00eb Foster Blake\u00a0comes to the rescue and gives farts a break in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/no-one-likes-a-fart-zoe-foster-blake\/prod9780143786603.html\"><em>No One Likes a Fart<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFor too long they\u2019ve (farts) been deemed the enemy.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0Zo\u00eb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>No One Likes and Fart <\/em>is a\u00a0sweet and funny story about accepting yourself and finding a friend who loves you just the way you are. Mostly, though, it\u2019s about a fart. And fart jokes. Loooots of fart jokes. Children will definitely make a beeline for it but will learn a lesson along the way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Zo\u00eb Foster Blake - the cutest book for Christmas\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5FNtF3akaM8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The story stems from Zo\u00eb&#8217;s own need to get her head around farting within her own family, and\u00a0from a discussion with her husband about how we treat them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to be able to create a book for kids.\u201d\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Zo\u00eb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Listen to our full interview with Zo\u00eb below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/356856047&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have we ever considered how a fart feels?\u00a0Our immediate reaction is to make them feel unwelcome, but imagine if we didn&#8217;t? What lesson would we, especially children, learn? Zo\u00eb Foster Blake\u00a0comes to the rescue and gives farts a break in No One Likes a Fart. \u201cFor too long they\u2019ve (farts) been deemed the enemy.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0Zo\u00eb No One Likes and Fart is a\u00a0sweet and funny story about accepting yourself and finding a friend who loves you just the way you are. Mostly, though, it\u2019s about a fart. And fart jokes. Loooots of fart jokes. Children will definitely make a beeline for it but will learn a lesson along the way. The story stems from Zo\u00eb&#8217;s own need to get her head around farting within her own family, and\u00a0from a discussion with her husband about how we treat them. \u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to be able to create a book for kids.\u201d\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Zo\u00eb Listen to our full interview with Zo\u00eb below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":77853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6676],"tags":[8245,8018,1974,8244,8169,7036,8167,8243,8168],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Zo\u00eb-Foster-Blake-makesfarts-loveable-again-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77549"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77858,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77549\/revisions\/77858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}