{"id":1469,"date":"2010-01-04T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:23","slug":"celebrate-old-ring-in-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the Old, Ring in the New&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/S0JNUsGw_fI\/AAAAAAAACU8\/xDK_ED9zKvg\/s1600-h\/KidlitAmbassador.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/KidlitAmbassador.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422981919139757554\" \/><\/a>Today marks the completion of the first two-year term of the very first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensbookambassador.com\/\">National Ambassador for Young People&#8217;s Literature<\/a>, and the good ladies at <a href=\"http:\/\/readingyear.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/thank-you-jon-scieszka.html\">A Year of Reading<\/a> have put together a tribute to the outgoing ambassador, Jon Scieszka and all that he&#8217;s done in promoting the love of reading in young readers and (ahem) those of us a few years beyond our youth.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, a new ambassador will be announced, but today, we say:<\/p>\n<p>THANK YOU!!!<\/p>\n<p>For a few recent articles by Mr. Scieszka, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-ca-state-of-the-art13-2009dec13,0,5156728.story\">L.A. Times holiday roundup of children&#8217;s books<\/a> and his recent hilarious and touching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jon-scieszka\/national-ambassador-for-y_b_389360.html\">Huffington Post article<\/a> about his term as the inaugural ambassador, in which he gives advice on how to connect kids with reading. We owe you more than kudos, sir! And whoever&#8217;s next up for the job has some big shoes to fill&#8230;metaphorically, we mean, since we have no idea what Mr. Scieszka&#8217;s shoe size is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the completion of the first two-year term of the very first National Ambassador for Young People&#8217;s Literature, and the good ladies at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,7,10],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-author-news","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5955,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}