{"id":35,"date":"2014-06-15T21:10:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T02:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2014-06-20T22:46:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T03:46:35","slug":"about-this-site","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/?page_id=35","title":{"rendered":"About This Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WILDTHINGS_51503_HJ_US-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-73 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WILDTHINGS_51503_HJ_US-1-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"WILDTHINGS_51503_HJ_US (1)\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WILDTHINGS_51503_HJ_US-1-218x300.jpg 218w, http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WILDTHINGS_51503_HJ_US-1-745x1024.jpg 745w, http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WILDTHINGS_51503_HJ_US-1-700x961.jpg 700w, http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WILDTHINGS_51503_HJ_US-1-332x456.jpg 332w, http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/WILDTHINGS_51503_HJ_US-1.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>When we first started writing <em>Wild Things<\/em>, a collection of stories behind the stories of your favorite children&#8217;s books, we came to one inescapable conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>There are too many stories out there.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told we didn&#8217;t really notice this until we turned in our preliminary manuscript to our editor.\u00a0The page count?\u00a0700+.<\/p>\n<p>Pick up the book now and you&#8217;ll find it a svelte 272 pages.\u00a0That meant cutting out content.\u00a0A LOT of content.\u00a0Great stories that will intrigue and entice you but just didn&#8217;t quite fit in with the book as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than let those stories go to waste, we&#8217;re repurposing them here.\u00a0If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what your favorite authors and illustrators have hidden in the pages of their books or how Charles Dickens <em>really<\/em> felt about Hans Christian Andersen, now you&#8217;ll know.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The bunny spot art at this site and the book&#8217;s cover art was created by David Roberts. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WILD THINGS!. Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 by David Roberts. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first started writing Wild Things, a collection of stories behind the stories of your favorite children&#8217;s books, we came to one inescapable conclusion. There are too many stories out there. Truth be told we didn&#8217;t really notice this until we turned in our preliminary manuscript to our editor.\u00a0The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wildthings.blaine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}