{"id":137131,"date":"2010-01-04T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T23:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurtisscaletta.com\/home\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2010-01-04T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T23:37:46","slug":"welcoming-the-new-ambassador%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/137131","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming the new ambassador\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever decides this thing made another great choice when they selected \ufeffKatherine Paterson to replace Jon Scieszka as the National Ambassador to Young People&#8217;s Literature. I admire Paterson very much as an author, and her <em>Bridge to Terabithia <\/em>is definitely one of those &#8220;now this here is what I&#8217;m trying to do&#8221; type books.\u00a0I love this decision because she is also quite different from the first ambassador, except that she&#8217;s also perfect, and someone who will connect with kids and inspire adults. I also think this really cements this position as one bestowed on the highest achievers and most respected men and women of letters who write for young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever decides this thing made another great choice when they selected \ufeffKatherine Paterson to replace Jon Scieszka as the National Ambassador to Young People&#8217;s Literature. I admire Paterson very much as an author, and her Bridge to Terabithia is definitely one of those &#8220;now this here is what I&#8217;m trying to do&#8221; type books.\u00a0I love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}