{"id":18502,"date":"2018-06-22T19:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T23:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=18502"},"modified":"2018-06-22T19:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T23:36:59","slug":"alaac201-why-do-authors-write-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/alaac201-why-do-authors-write-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"#alaac201 Why do authors write for children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Why do writers choose to write for young people?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because they need me! Sharon Draper<\/p>\n<p>[contact-form][contact-field label=&#8221;Name&#8221; type=&#8221;name&#8221;  required=&#8221;true&#8221; \/][contact-field label=&#8221;Email&#8221; type=&#8221;email&#8221; required=&#8221;true&#8221; \/][contact-field label=&#8221;Website&#8221; type=&#8221;url&#8221; \/][contact-field label=&#8221;Message&#8221; type=&#8221;textarea&#8221; \/][\/contact-form]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do writers choose to write for young people? &nbsp; Because they need me! Sharon Draper [contact-form][contact-field label=&#8221;Name&#8221; type=&#8221;name&#8221; required=&#8221;true&#8221; \/][contact-field label=&#8221;Email&#8221; type=&#8221;email&#8221; required=&#8221;true&#8221; \/][contact-field label=&#8221;Website&#8221; type=&#8221;url&#8221; \/][contact-field label=&#8221;Message&#8221; type=&#8221;textarea&#8221; \/][\/contact-form]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1505],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}