{"id":887,"date":"2004-03-31T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/03\/the-monster-at-the-end-of-this-entry.html"},"modified":"2004-03-31T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-31T22:03:00","slug":"the-monster-at-the-end-of-this-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2004\/03\/the-monster-at-the-end-of-this-entry.html","title":{"rendered":"The Monster at the End of this Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something comes over me when I enter a Costco<\/a>. I. Must. Have. Everything! There’s something innately satisfying about having a house of full of food and paper things. If a major blizzard hits, we’ll be fine, eating our canned tomatoes and pooping into our size 3 Cruiser diapers. Of course, if I limited my purchases to food and paper goods, we’d be in much better financial shape. But I get caught in the aisles. Swayed by the gleaming quanties. Seduced by the per item prices. So, I also purchased over 100 bulbs that I really will plant (no, really!) as soon as the rain stops. I bought a raft of wrapping paper that will come in handy, as we know a zillion babies who all have birthdays coming up. I have enough deodorant and laundry detergent to keep me smelling fresh into the next decade.<\/p>\n

Now, the one thing I won’t buy at Costco is books. I’m morally opposed to buying books at Costco. However, when passing the book aisle, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a board book version of The Monster at the End of This Book<\/i><\/a>. I had completely forgotten about this book! But my sister and I certainly read it, and of course, I had to buy it for Doodles. It was sealed in the store, but once we got home and I pulled off the plastic, I had an incredible sense of deja vu. How could I have forgotten this book? I hadn’t realized how great Grover is until I re-heard “Monster in the Mirror”<\/a> and then re-read this book. What a powerful lesson Grover has for all of us. The metafictional way Grover so cleverly breaks the fourth wall and so clearly refers back to the text is obviously Sesame Street<\/i><\/a>‘s way of introducing literary theory to the tot set. “Wubba wubba wubba wubba woo woo woo<\/a>. That monster at the end of this entry, he just might be you!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something comes over me when I enter a Costco. I. Must. Have. Everything! There’s something innately satisfying about having a house of full of food and paper things. If a major blizzard hits, we’ll be fine, eating our canned tomatoes and pooping into our size 3 Cruiser diapers. Of course, if I limited my purchases […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}