{"id":949,"date":"2011-12-06T19:53:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T19:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2011-12-06T19:53:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T19:53:47","slug":"new-exhibit-laddie-a-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2011\/12\/06\/new-exhibit-laddie-a-christmas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibit: Laddie, A Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-950\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santasm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-950\" title=\"santaSM.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santasm.jpg\" alt=\"Laddie meets Santa, 1928\" width=\"520\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santasm.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santasm-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santasm-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/santasm-1024x665.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laddie meets Santa, 1928<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1928, the first and second graders in one of the Kingston schools wrote a short book about Laddie, the dog who saved Christmas. As Elspeth Hardy, their teacher and editor, \u00a0wrote in the preface, &#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; Illustrations by Kingstonian Marion Cobb Dries complete the work.<\/p>\n<p>Stop by the Library and read this Kingston Christmas classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1928, the first and second graders in one of the Kingston schools wrote a short book about Laddie, the dog who saved Christmas. As Elspeth Hardy, their teacher and editor, \u00a0wrote in the preface, &#8220;The children worked collectively; one child started with an opening sentence, the others took the thought and followed on until &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2011\/12\/06\/new-exhibit-laddie-a-christmas-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New exhibit: Laddie, 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":[7,8],"tags":[58,82,216],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibit","category-holidays","tag-childrens-books","tag-dog","tag-santa-claus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","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=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}