{"id":2635,"date":"2011-06-26T20:34:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T00:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2011-06-26T20:34:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T00:34:05","slug":"have-you-ever-met-one-of-your-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/have-you-ever-met-one-of-your-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever met one of your heroes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I will always remember about this ALA conference is that it was the time I met Tomie dePaola, this year&#8217;s recipient of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/alsc\/awardsgrants\/bookmedia\/wildermedal\/wilderabout\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Ingalls Wilder Lifetime Achievement Award<\/a> for his &#8220;substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tomie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2636\" title=\"Mary Voors &amp; Tomie dePaola\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tomie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"968\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tomie.jpg 968w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tomie-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tomie-764x1024.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><\/a>He, of course, was kind, funny, gracious and full of stories. I was starstruck, tongue-tied, and filled with awe.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know more about Tomie dePaola? Check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomie.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I will always remember about this ALA conference is that it was the time I met Tomie dePaola, this year&#8217;s recipient of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Lifetime Achievement Award for his &#8220;substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.&#8221; He, of course, was kind, funny, gracious and full of stories. I was starstruck, tongue-tied, and filled with awe. Want to know more about Tomie dePaola? Check out his website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"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":[114,144,22,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2011","category-blogger-mary-r-voors","category-childrens-literature","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","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\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}