{"id":3001,"date":"2003-07-01T12:52:35","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T12:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2003-07-01T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2003-07-01T12:52:35","slug":"homer_price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3001","title":{"rendered":"Homer Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-legacy\/images\/2003\/06\/29\/qotd_06292003.html\">quote from Robert McCloskey<\/a>.  So, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/home.aspx?user=lilymab\">emilily<\/a> paged me a few min ago to say that he had passed away I thought it was kinda funky that I&#8217;d just posted something by him.  When reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/182\/metro\/Creator_of_Ducklings_dies+.shtml\">article on his death<\/a> I was struck by the number of things he&#8217;d written that I didn&#8217;t really remember were by him.  Of course I blame much of that on being a young kid at the time I read much of his stuff.  I think <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140564349\/lifelistedchr-20\">Make Way for Ducklings<\/a><\/em> was probably the first thing I read by him.  My parents had this old copy that I think belonged to one of them growing up.  It certainly wasn&#8217;t new when I got a hold of it.  The book of his that I remember the most though was <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0670377295\/listlistedchr-20\">Homer Price<\/a><\/em>.  I read tons as a kid, but there were a few books that I&#8217;ll always remeber and that was one of them.  I also remember reading the second book <em>Centerburg Tales<\/em>, though that one didn&#8217;t seem to leave as much of an impact.  I can&#8217;t wait till my nephew starts reading and is old enough for me to get him some of these books. Hopefully he&#8217;ll enjoy them as much as I did.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another link giving a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friend.ly.net\/scoop\/biographies\/mccloskeyrobert\/\">bit more history of him and the books he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I posted a quote from Robert McCloskey. So, when emilily paged me a few min ago to say that he had passed away I thought it was kinda funky that I&#8217;d just posted something by him. When reading the article on his death I was struck by the number of things he&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}