{"id":528,"date":"2010-08-13T07:49:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2010-08-13T07:53:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:53:23","slug":"my-mommy-reads-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/my-mommy-reads-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mommy Reads to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/glsims99\/4777713932\/\" title=\"Reading with Mommy by glsims99, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4138\/4777713932_4afbe35acb.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Reading with Mommy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is something magical about reading to a child.  My mom read to me often and I cherish those memories. <\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite books was a manuscript my mom had written, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Herbie Hic-up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always dreamed of getting mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book published.  She had sketched illustrations, but wanted an illustrator to bring the visuals to life.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward 40+ years.  I may have grown-up, but I still dreamed of asking my favorite British designer, <a href=\"http:\/\/hicksdesign.co.uk\/journal\/\">Jon Hicks<\/a>, if he would consider illustrating my mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book. <\/p>\n<p>2010, I finally asked Jon.  I was so thrilled when he said he would give it a go\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6that I squealed and bounced around like a little kid.  I may have grown older, but I have the heart and soul of a 4 year old (and I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have it any other way).<\/p>\n<p>Watch &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/herbiehiccup.tumblr.com\/\">The Tale of Herbie Hiccup<\/a>&#8221; come to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something magical about reading to a child. My mom read to me often and I cherish those memories. One of my favorite books was a manuscript my mom had written, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Herbie Hic-up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always dreamed of getting mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book published. She had sketched illustrations, but wanted an illustrator to bring the visuals to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/my-mommy-reads-to-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Mommy Reads to Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}