{"id":82,"date":"2006-07-30T07:14:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T07:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=82"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:35:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:35:05","slug":"moomin-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2006\/07\/30\/moomin-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Moomin Madness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/moomin13.gif\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to enlarge image\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"moomin13.gif\" id=\"image81\" alt=\"Click to enlarge image\" width=\"520\" src=\"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/moomin13.gif\" \/><\/a>The Moomins are the central characters in a series of books by Finnish writer Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish. They are a family of Scandinavian trolls who are white, round and furry in appearance, with large snouts that make them resemble hippopotamuses. The carefree and adventurous family live in their house in Moominvalley, though in the past their residences have included a lighthouse and a theatre. Read more about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/virtual.finland.fi\/netcomm\/news\/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=27031\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Moomin World &#038; its Creator<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Moomin collection is based on author-artist <strong>Tove Jansson&#8217;s (1914 &#8211; 2001)<\/strong> original Moomin production: Moomin books, illustrations and three-dimensional tableaux. Enter the<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tampere.fi\/muumi\/english\/moominvalley.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Moomin Valley Art Collection<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A short Moominland  jingle\/song and animated cartoon at<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delipap.fi\/lastenhygienia\/index1.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Luxus Muumi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hello to all children and grown-ups! Did you know that there are people who want to ban Moomin and his friends? Horrible. At least one site on internet the authors even recommend that parents prevent their children from meeting and playing with friends who read or watch Moomin comics. Moomin and his friends have a negative influence on small children, say the authors on their page.<\/em> Sign the guest book and help <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/moomins.tripod.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Save the Moomins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read about (and maybe order!) the new forthcoming Moomin collection in English at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/shop\/product_info.php?products_id=22978&#038;osCsid=1a308318244ddb29e96435fe9961600d\">: Moomin Book One<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moomins are the central characters in a series of books by Finnish writer Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish. They are a family of Scandinavian trolls who are white, round and furry in appearance, with large snouts that make them resemble hippopotamuses. The carefree and adventurous family live in their house in Moominvalley, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,27,2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-books","category-comics","category-coollinks","category-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}