{"id":5619,"date":"2010-06-04T02:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T07:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2010-06-04T02:54:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T07:54:02","slug":"congrats-to-jeremy-tankard-and-boo-hoo-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=5619","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Jeremy Tankard and Boo-Hoo Bird!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Jeremy-Tankard2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5620\" title=\"Jeremy Tankard2\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Jeremy-Tankard2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Jeremy-Tankard2.jpg 399w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Jeremy-Tankard2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Jeremy-Tankard2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a>I am sadly, desperately, mournfully behind when it comes to reading my Google Feed Reader (everyone should have one!), and so now I&#8217;m scraping May 11th and trying to run through everything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But I did want to take a minute out to congratulate my friend Jeremy Tankard on winning The Blue Spruce Award, as part of the 2010 Forest Of Reading Awards, for his children&#8217;s book <em>BOO HOO BIRD<\/em>! It&#8217;s the sequel to his award-winning debut <em>Grumpy Bird<\/em>, and it&#8217;s great! I&#8217;ve already bought copies for both of my nieces (and a few more besides!) and they&#8217;re a real hit. Winning the award puts thousands of extra copies of work into the hands of K-2 kids all over Ontario!<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m kinda off in my own little world a lot of the time (and I&#8217;ve missed sooooo many other opportunities to congratulate friends) but yeah, congrats Jeremy! It&#8217;s a well-deserved award!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/arts\/movies\/sex-and-the-city-2-sexless-in-two-cities\/article1580522\/\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sadly, desperately, mournfully behind when it comes to reading my Google Feed Reader (everyone should have one!), and so now I&#8217;m scraping May 11th and trying to run through everything&#8230; &#8230;But I did want to take a minute out to congratulate my friend Jeremy Tankard on winning The Blue Spruce Award, as part &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=5619\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congrats to Jeremy Tankard and Boo-Hoo Bird!&#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":[20,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-cartooning","category-not-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5622,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}