{"id":193,"date":"2009-11-30T16:21:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T21:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/?p=193"},"modified":"2009-11-30T16:25:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T21:25:34","slug":"neil-gaiman-at-the-newbery-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/2009\/11\/30\/neil-gaiman-at-the-newbery-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Gaiman at the Newbery Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 12th, 2009, Neil Gaiman delivered his Newbery medal acceptance speech.\u00a0 It was a wonderful\u00a0 talk, about <em>The Graveyard Book, <\/em>about being an outcast who grew up with books in the library, and about the power of literature.\u00a0 I had fun that night sitting next to author Richard Peck and chatting with Ingrid Law, author of <em>Savvy, <\/em>another honoree of the evening.\u00a0 Here is a picture of Gaiman and me:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/files\/2009\/11\/roxandneil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"378\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-194\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/files\/2009\/11\/roxandneil.jpg\" alt=\"roxandneil\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/files\/2009\/11\/roxandneil.jpg 460w, https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/files\/2009\/11\/roxandneil-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 12th, 2009, Neil Gaiman delivered his Newbery medal acceptance speech.\u00a0 It was a wonderful\u00a0 talk, about The Graveyard Book, about being an outcast who grew up with books in the library, and about the power of literature.\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/2009\/11\/30\/neil-gaiman-at-the-newbery-banquet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[711,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/scifan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}