{"id":92,"date":"2021-03-05T07:16:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T12:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/?p=92"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:25:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T20:25:42","slug":"we-send-warm-birthday-wishes-all-the-way-down-under-to-australian-author-mem-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/2021\/03\/05\/we-send-warm-birthday-wishes-all-the-way-down-under-to-australian-author-mem-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"We send warm birthday wishes all the way down under to Australian author Mem Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mem Fox is a well known and popular children&#8217;s author, and today is her birthday. She lives in Australia. Her first book was rejected by 9 publishers. Finally, someone was willing to publish her book, but they asked her to change the mice characters to possums in order to highlight an Australian theme.  That is how &#8220;Possum Magic&#8221; became one of the most popular children&#8217;s books in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3373\/2021\/03\/L2DImNEcYKab7HuWLu1mZiAChZVttRLY-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3373\/2021\/03\/L2DImNEcYKab7HuWLu1mZiAChZVttRLY-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3373\/2021\/03\/L2DImNEcYKab7HuWLu1mZiAChZVttRLY-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3373\/2021\/03\/L2DImNEcYKab7HuWLu1mZiAChZVttRLY-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3373\/2021\/03\/L2DImNEcYKab7HuWLu1mZiAChZVttRLY.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mem Fox is a well known and popular children&#8217;s author, and today is her birthday. She lives in Australia. Her first book was rejected by 9 publishers. Finally, someone was willing to publish her book, but they asked her to change the mice characters to possums in order to highlight an Australian theme. That is how &#8220;Possum Magic&#8221; became one &hellip;<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/2021\/03\/05\/we-send-warm-birthday-wishes-all-the-way-down-under-to-australian-author-mem-fox\/\"><span class=\"button\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/whitmorereading2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}