{"id":564,"date":"2014-07-02T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:41:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:41:16","slug":"thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Thank You."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-6Xaz9DkCaQY\/U7RUWWvLY7I\/AAAAAAAAEwg\/h8OAb7jEUeI\/s1600\/walter-dean-myers.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/walter-dean-myers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Brilliant writer, Walter Dean Myers, 1937-2014<\/b><\/div>\n<p>To one of the first who said, &#8220;We need diverse books,&#8221; and never, ever, <i>ever<\/i> stopped saying it.<br \/>\nWith gratitude, for lending us your words and your voice,<br \/>\n Young adult readers and writers of all colors, everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/afuse8production\/2014\/07\/02\/press-release-obituary-walter-dean-myers-1937-2014\/\" target= _blank>Full obit<\/a> at Betsy&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brilliant writer, Walter Dean Myers, 1937-2014 To one of the first who said, &#8220;We need diverse books,&#8221; and never, ever, ever stopped saying it&#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":[7],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-author-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8103,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/8103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}