{"id":2573,"date":"2013-05-24T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T22:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2013-05-24T17:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T23:14:22","slug":"celebrate-the-life-of-one-of-childrensliteratures-luminaries-a-peter-sieruta-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2573","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the Life of One of Children&#8217;s<br>Literature&#8217;s Luminaries: A Peter Sieruta Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/peterforpost.jpg\">It was one year ago at this time that, sadly, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2358\">Peter D. Sieruta passed away<\/a><\/strong>. For those of you who knew Peter and plan to attend <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ala13.ala.org\/\">this summer&#8217;s annual conference<\/a><\/strong> of the American Library Association in Chicago, please note the following information and join us on June 28th, if you can. <\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=4>What:<\/font><\/strong> <em>Celebrate the Life of One of Children&#8217;s Literature&#8217;s Luminaries: A Peter Sieruta Event<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><font size=4>When:<\/font><\/strong> Friday, June 28th, 4:30 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong><font size=4>Where:<\/font><\/strong> The Lake Erie Room at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.hilton.com\/en\/hotels\/illinois\/hilton-chicago-CHICHHH\/index.html\">the Hilton Chicago<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How did you best know Peter Sieruta? Was it through his remarkable blog, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/collectingchildrensbooks.blogspot.com\/\">Collecting Children&#8217;s Books<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (a go-to site for wit and historical tidbits)? Was it from his countless <em>Horn Book<\/em> articles or his work on the <em>Horn Book Guide<\/em>? Maybe you met Peter in a bookstore or you were a close personal friend.  <\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, come, mix, and mingle with other friends and fans of the often urbane, always scintillating fellow. This event will be held as a celebration of Peter and his book (co-written with myself and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/afuse8production\/\">Betsy Bird<\/a><\/strong>), <em>Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children&#8217;s Literature<\/em>, slated to hit bookstore shelves in spring 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Please RSVP to <em>Fusenumber8 [at] gmail.com<\/em> if you would like to attend this gathering.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The above photo is an older one of Peter and is used with permission of John Sieruta.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was one year ago at this time that, sadly, Peter D. Sieruta passed away. For those of you who knew Peter and plan to attend this summer&#8217;s annual conference of the American Library Association in Chicago, please note the following information and join us on June 28th, if you can. What: Celebrate the Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}