{"id":2163,"date":"2008-01-03T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:11","slug":"ambassador-schezka-sheezikka-skezzka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2163","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador &#8230;Schezka? Sheezikka? Skezzka&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine the awards dinners? The glitzy state affairs at the White House? And none of them able to say nor spell the name of a guy we all know is the cool brainfather of <a href=\"http:\/\/guysread.com\/\" target= _blank>Guys Read<\/a> and a bunch of other books like <i>The Stinky Cheese Man<\/i> and <i>The True Story of the Three Little Pigs<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbook.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/great-choice.html#links\" target= _blank>Read Roger<\/a>, we&#8217;ve discovered that awesomely energetic and funny Jon Scieszka is the newest &#8212; and the first &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/03\/books\/03laur.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" target= _blank>National Ambassador for Young People&#8217;s Literature<\/a>. Congratulations!!! And YAY for young people&#8217;s lit &#8212; it&#8217;s about to get a most serious kick in the pants!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine the awards dinners? The glitzy state affairs at the White House? And none of them able to say nor spell the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,10],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happenings","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4621,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/4621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}