{"id":11842,"date":"2012-05-08T09:03:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T09:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/05\/08\/rip-maurice-sendak\/"},"modified":"2012-05-08T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T09:03:04","slug":"rip-maurice-sendak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/rip-maurice-sendak\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Maurice Sendak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of the historically transformative and widely loved book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060254920\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0060254920\">Where the Wild Things Are<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0060254920\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>&#8221; had died.  He was 83.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/05\/i-4ec1d90faecb7bd66e11102d5b9fc4f6-maurice_sendak.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/05\/i-a9c4cc4af53af9538ef9d0be2a23d33a-maurice_sendak-thumb-500x375-74220.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-a9c4cc4af53af9538ef9d0be2a23d33a-maurice_sendak-thumb-500x375-74220.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Standing with a character from his book Where the Wild Things Are, author and illustrator Maurice Sendak speaks with the media Jan. 11, 2002, at the Children&#8217;s Museum of Manhattan in New York City. Sendak died in Danbury, Conn., on Tuesday. He was 83.  Story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/08\/152248367\/maurice-sendak-where-wild-things-are-author-dies?sc=nl&#038;cc=brk-20120508-0853\">NPR<\/a>, photo from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/08\/152248367\/maurice-sendak-where-wild-things-are-author-dies?sc=nl&#038;cc=brk-20120508-0853\"> Spencer Platt\/Getty<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of the historically transformative and widely loved book &#8220;Where the Wild Things Are&#8221; had died. He was 83. Standing with a character from his book Where the Wild Things Are, author and illustrator Maurice Sendak speaks with the media Jan. 11, 2002, at the Children&#8217;s Museum of Manhattan in New York City. Sendak &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/08\/rip-maurice-sendak\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP Maurice Sendak<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-350","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}