{"id":9294,"date":"2012-05-08T10:33:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9294"},"modified":"2012-05-08T10:32:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:32:22","slug":"in-memoriam-maurice-sendak-1928-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9294","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Maurice Sendak, 1928 &#8211; 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/09\/books\/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html?_r=1&#038;pagewanted=all\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/MauriceSendak_WheretheWildThingsAre.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Maurice Sendak, 1928 &#8211; 2012<\/b><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>While Sendak is best known for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060254920\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=tbb-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0060254920\"><i>Where the Wild Things Are<\/i><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=tbb-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0060254920\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, a seminal book, at least for <i>my<\/i> childhood, his wicked sense of humor does not appear to have dimmed over his 83 years, as evidenced in this recent, <i>laugh-out-loud<\/i> two-part conversation with Stephen Colbert on <i>The Colbert Report&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:colbertnation.com:406796\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:colbertnation.com:406902\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For the record, Colbert&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/articles\/i-am-a-pole\"><i>I am a Pole (and So Can You!)<\/i><\/a> has now actually been published! Sendak will be missed, but never forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice Sendak, 1928 &#8211; 2012 While Sendak is best known for Where the Wild Things Are, a seminal book, at least for my childhood, his wicked sense of humor does not appear to have dimmed over his 83 years, as evidenced in this recent, laugh-out-loud two-part conversation with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report&#8230; For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,205],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam","category-stephen-colbert","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9294"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}