{"id":766,"date":"2009-05-01T08:40:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T15:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2009-05-03T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T01:11:48","slug":"american-libraries-focus-video-avi-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/american-libraries-focus-video-avi-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"American Libraries Focus video: Avi Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Legendary author Avi speaks to Booklist about Poppy and Ereth &#8211; his newest and most autobiographical book &#8211; as well as how he ended up with his famous name, how his lack of a distinctive style helps him as a writer, his thoughts on how the Newbery Award could improve, and which of his books is the &#8220;best.&#8221; Hint: it&#8217;s a trick question.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">[youtube JaagIM6DyuA nolink]<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary author Avi speaks to Booklist about Poppy and Ereth &#8211; his newest and most autobiographical book &#8211; as well as how he ended up with his famous name, how his lack of a distinctive style helps him as a writer, his thoughts on how the Newbery Award could improve, and which of his books is the &#8220;best.&#8221; Hint: it&#8217;s a trick question. &nbsp; [youtube JaagIM6DyuA nolink]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}