{"id":580,"date":"2016-05-12T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=580"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:05:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T16:05:20","slug":"580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Good to hear from Allan Ahlberg!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good to hear Allan Ahlberg (he of <i>Funny Bones\u00a0<\/i>and <i>The Jolly Postman<\/i>, among others) on Radio 4&#8217;s Open Book, a few minutes ago. Encouraging to hear that that this hero&#8217;s approach to writing is similar to mine: I absolutely get the idea of the story growing organically out of a few choice words that catch the imagination. I liked his knitting analogy too. But I have to protest at the idea that children&#8217;s books are not as important as grown-ups&#8217;! I&#8217;m with Mariella on that one!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Open Book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b079mdy4\" target=\"_blank\">Open Book.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to hear Allan Ahlberg (he of Funny Bones\u00a0and The Jolly Postman, among others) on Radio 4&#8217;s Open Book, a few minutes ago. Encouraging to hear that that this hero&#8217;s approach to writing is similar to mine: I absolutely get the idea of the story growing organically out of a few choice words that catch [&hellip;]<\/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\/580"}],"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=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}