{"id":549,"date":"2008-09-17T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T19:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2008-09-17T20:01:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T03:01:16","slug":"bark-martha-bark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/bark-martha-bark\/","title":{"rendered":"Bark, Martha, Bark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/martha.JPG\" title=\"martha.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/martha.thumbnail.JPG\" title=\"martha.JPG\" alt=\"martha.JPG\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I love children&#8217;s books and I love dogs so I&#8217;m always happy when the two interests intersect. The current issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebark.com\/ezine\/features_specialFeatures\/Martha-Speaks-PBS.html\" title=\"Bark\">Bark<\/a>, the modern dog culture magazine, has a wonderful article about Martha. Actually, it&#8217;s an interview with the creator of Martha&#8217;s books, Susan Meddaugh. If you don&#8217;t have a copy of the magazine handy, the article is also online at http:\/\/www.thebark.com\/ezine\/features_specialFeatures\/Martha-Speaks-PBS.html.\u00a0 Martha Speaks premiered on PBS stations on September 1. Meddaugh talks about the inspiration for the book and how Martha is based on a real stray who came to live with her and her family. Arf!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I love children&#8217;s books and I love dogs so I&#8217;m always happy when the two interests intersect. The current issue of Bark, the modern dog culture magazine, has a wonderful article about Martha. Actually, it&#8217;s an interview with the creator of Martha&#8217;s books, Susan Meddaugh. If you don&#8217;t have a copy of the magazine handy, the article is also online at http:\/\/www.thebark.com\/ezine\/features_specialFeatures\/Martha-Speaks-PBS.html.\u00a0 Martha Speaks premiered on PBS stations on September 1. Meddaugh talks about the inspiration for the book and how Martha is based on a real stray who came to live with her and her family. Arf!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[70,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jeanette-larson","category-childrens-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}