{"id":3693,"date":"2012-01-29T00:02:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T05:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2012-01-28T19:06:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T00:06:43","slug":"jack-gantos-on-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/jack-gantos-on-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Gantos on NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the NPR show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/wait-wait-dont-tell-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wait Wait\u2026Don\u2019t Tell Me<\/a>.\u00a0 And I love it even more when it features children\u2019s authors. And I love it through the roof when it features an author who has just won the Newbery Award.<\/p>\n<p>Did you catch Jack Gantos \u2014 the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for his novel Dead End in Norvelt \u2014 on this NPR radio show this weekend?\u00a0 After a laughter filled interview, Jack Gantos was invited to play a <em>Not My Job<\/em> game segment in which he was challenged to correctly answer three questions related to romance novels.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear the whole interview, or read the transcript, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/01\/28\/145998769\/newbery-medal-winner-jack-gantos-plays-not-my-job\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the NPR show, Wait Wait\u2026Don\u2019t Tell Me.\u00a0 And I love it even more when it features children\u2019s authors. And I love it through the roof when it features an author who has just won the Newbery Award. Did you catch Jack Gantos \u2014 the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for his novel Dead End in Norvelt \u2014 on this NPR radio show this weekend?\u00a0 After a laughter filled interview, Jack Gantos was invited to play a Not My Job game segment in which he was challenged to correctly answer three questions related to romance novels. You can hear the whole interview, or read the transcript, here.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/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":[144,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-mary-r-voors","category-news-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","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=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}