check in, incl. walrus tap and deleting a stale draft

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 Title: Book Review: Matt Walsh's <em>Johnny the Walrus</em>
-Date: 2021-05-15 05:00
+Date: 2022-10-15 05:00
 Category: commentary
 Tags: natalism, review (book)
 Status: draft
 
-This is a terrible children's book that could have been great if the author could have just _pretended to be subtle_.
+This is a terrible children's book that could have been great if the author could have just _pretended to be subtle_. Our protagonist, Johnny, is a kid who loves to play make-believe. One day, he pretends to be a walrus, fashioning "tusks" for himself with wooden spoons, and "flippers" from socks. Unfortunately, Johnny's mother takes him literally: she has him put on gray makeup, gives him worms to eat, and takes him to the zoo to be with the "other" walruses.
 
-Our protagonist, Johnny, is a kid who loves to play make-believe.
+With competent execution, this could be a great children's book! The premise is not "realistic"—no sane parent would conclude their child is _literally_ a walrus _because he said so_—but it's a kind of non-realism common in children's literature, attributing simple, caricatured motivations to characters in order to tell a silly, memorable story.