{"id":1377,"date":"2018-11-15T12:10:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T12:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2018-11-15T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T12:38:30","slug":"jacob-starkes-in-national-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Starke’s in National Parks!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing like a rhyming headline to perk me up in the morning – especially when it heralds the good news that a number of National Parks<\/strong> – Brecon Beacons, Exmoor <\/strong>and North York Moors<\/strong> – are now stocking my new rhyming picture book,\u00a0<\/strong>Jacob Starke Loves the Dark<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>in their shops. Woo hoo!\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The reason for this, of course, is that\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Jacob Starke Loves the Dark<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is all about the dangers of light pollution and the importance of Dark Skies, and the National Parks that are stocking my book are all known for their exceptionally beautiful\u00a0Dark Skies<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Exmoor National Park (where I lived for a number of years, and once walked into a hedge when trying to get home\u00a0from my next door neighbour’s house at night without a torch, so I know how dark it is) and Brecon Beacons National Park are both designated as International Dark Sky Reserves<\/strong>, which means they have an exceptional quality of starry nights and a nocturnal environment that is specifically protected for its scientific, natural, educational, cultural, heritage and\/or public enjoyment. North York Moors National Park has Dark Skies Discovery Sites<\/strong>\u00a0at Danby and Sutton Bank National Park Centres plus Scarborough & Ryedale Astronomical Society Observatories in Dalby Forest.<\/p>\n

So exciting to think that my book might encourage children to look at the stars from our National Parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing like a rhyming headline to perk me up in the morning – especially when it heralds the good news that a number of National Parks – Brecon Beacons, Exmoor and North York Moors – are now stocking my new rhyming picture book,\u00a0Jacob Starke Loves the Dark\u00a0in their shops. Woo hoo! The reason for this, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}