{"id":262,"date":"2007-09-08T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T20:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/08\/madeleine-lengle-dies-at-age-88\/"},"modified":"2007-09-08T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T20:36:36","slug":"madeleine-lengle-dies-at-age-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine L&#8217;Engle dies at age 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/200px-madeleine_l'engle.jpg\" title=\"200px-madeleine_l%27engle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/hw7.gif\" title=\"hw7.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/hw7.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"hw7.gif\" \/><\/a>Madeleine LEngle, author of &#8220;A Wrinkle in Time&#8221; has died.\u00a0 Many of us will remember reading this Newbery Medal book. Not a big fan of fantasy and science fiction, this is one of the few in that genre that I have read and enjoyed.\u00a0 In my earlier days as an Asst. Children\/Young Adult Librarian, I recommended this book to many a reluctant reader with positive results.<\/p>\n<p>Though labeled a children&#8217;s author, L&#8217;Engle always insisted that she did not write down to children.\u00a0 In her own words, &#8220;I never write for any age group in mind&#8230;When you underestimate your audience, you&#8217;re cutting yourself off from your best work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Madeleine LEngle, author of &#8220;A Wrinkle in Time&#8221; has died.\u00a0 Many of us will remember reading this Newbery Medal book. Not a big fan of fantasy and science fiction, this is one of the few in that genre that I have read and enjoyed.\u00a0 In my earlier days as an Asst. Children\/Young Adult Librarian, I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-literary-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-4e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}