{"id":3572,"date":"2011-03-26T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/03\/26\/biting-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2011-03-26T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T17:03:00","slug":"biting-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/03\/26\/biting-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"biting the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children\u2019s letters \u2014 sometimes very hastily \u2014 but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, &#8220;Dear Jim: I loved your card.&#8221; Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, &#8220;Jim loved your card so much he ate it.&#8221; That to me was one of the highest compliments I\u2019ve ever received. He didn\u2019t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right\"><i>&#8211; Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children\u2019s letters \u2014 sometimes very hastily \u2014 but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, &#8220;Dear Jim: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/03\/26\/biting-the-sun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;biting the sun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[993],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}