{"id":13560,"date":"2012-05-11T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=13560"},"modified":"2012-05-09T20:30:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T08:30:05","slug":"gone-perhaps-where-the-wild-things-are-farewell-maurice-sendak-1928-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/05\/11\/gone-perhaps-where-the-wild-things-are-farewell-maurice-sendak-1928-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone Perhaps &#8220;Where The Wild Things Are&#8221;: Farewell Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/05\/11\/gone-perhaps-where-the-wild-things-are-farewell-maurice-sendak-1928-2012\/where-the-wild-things-are\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13562\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13562 alignleft\" title=\"'Where The Wild Things Are'\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Where-The-Wild-Things-Are.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Where-The-Wild-Things-Are.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Where-The-Wild-Things-Are-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>Children&#8217;s illustrator and author, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maurice_Sendak\">Maurice Sendak<\/a>, perhaps best known for the children&#8217;s picture book, <em><strong>Where The Wild Things Are<\/strong><\/em> died on May 8, aged 83.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has run a full obituary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/09\/books\/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, there are other tributes across the world, including in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/maurice-sendaks-legacy-lives-on-in-bedtime-rituals-around-the-world\/2012\/05\/09\/gIQAAnsGCU_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/may\/08\/maurice-sendak-emma-brockes\">Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Farewell, Maurice Sendak: however much <strong><em>Where The Wild Things Are<\/em><\/strong> and your other work may carry on, you will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children&#8217;s illustrator and author, Maurice Sendak, perhaps best known for the children&#8217;s picture book, Where The Wild Things Are died on May 8, aged 83. The New York Times has run a full obituary, Here. Not surprisingly, there are other tributes across the world, including in the Washington Post and the Guardian. Farewell, Maurice Sendak: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13560"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13572,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13560\/revisions\/13572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}