{"id":519,"date":"2009-12-17T21:11:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2009-12-17T21:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:11:40","slug":"laddie-a-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/12\/17\/laddie-a-christmas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Laddie &#8211; A Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-520\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/smsanta.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-520\" title=\"smSanta\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/smsanta.jpg\" alt=\"Laddie convinces Santa, 1928\" width=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/smsanta.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/smsanta-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laddie convinces Santa, 1928<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1928, the first and second grade students in Elspeth Hardy&#8217;s class wrote a holiday story about a little dog named Laddie saving Christmas for his family. As Mrs. Hardy described the process, &#8220;The children worked collectively; one child started with an opening sentence, the others took the thought and followed on until the tale was finished.&#8221; Illustrated by Kingston High graduate Marion Cobb Dries, the book was published in November 1928.<\/p>\n<p>Laddie will be featured at Storytime in the Children&#8217;s Room on Monday, Dec. 21 at 6:30 in a special reading by archivist Susan Aprill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1928, the first and second grade students in Elspeth Hardy&#8217;s class wrote a holiday story about a little dog named Laddie saving Christmas for his family. As Mrs. Hardy described the process, &#8220;The children worked collectively; one child started with an opening sentence, the others took the thought and followed on until the tale &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2009\/12\/17\/laddie-a-christmas-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laddie &#8211; A Christmas Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,16],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-holidays","category-schools","tag-santa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}