{"id":512,"date":"2018-12-08T13:13:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T21:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanbak.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:05:20","slug":"sheldon-cow-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Sheldon, Cow Expert!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My family has many happy memories associated with our after dinner reading.\u00a0 Gordon Korman’s No Coins, Please<\/em> is one of very few books that has warranted being read aloud twice as a family.\u00a0 There are many hilarious\u00a0 passages throughout the text, but probably the most memorable is when one of the characters announces “Sheldon, Cow Expert!”<\/p>\n

Those words are perhaps not funnier than the rest of the book, but for some reason the first time those words were read over the dinner table the family was reduced to uncontrollable laughter which continued for some time.\u00a0 The second time we read this book, despite (or perhaps due to) being anticipated, similar mayhem ensued.\u00a0 And now that phrase and book are associated with one of may happy moments we have shared.<\/p>\n

Although not extremely flexible, we nevertheless find situations where we can quote those now immortal words.\u00a0 Whenever we do, the family joins together in laughter and any unfortunate bystanders simply stare quizzically–we’ve mostly given up trying to explain.\u00a0 It’s just to hard to explain who Sheldon is, what a Cow Expert is, why Sheldon is a Cow Expert, why he announces “Sheldon, Cow Expert!” and why it is so funny to my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My family has many happy memories associated with our after dinner reading.\u00a0 Gordon Korman’s No Coins, Please is one of very few books that has warranted being read aloud twice as a family.\u00a0 There are many hilarious\u00a0 passages throughout the text, but probably the most memorable is when one of the characters announces “Sheldon, Cow … Continue reading “Sheldon, Cow Expert!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,7],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanbak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}