{"id":11280,"date":"2021-03-26T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11280"},"modified":"2021-03-27T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T01:02:55","slug":"beverly-cleary-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/26\/beverly-cleary-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverly Cleary Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/story\/2021-03-26\/beverly-cleary-childrens-author-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beverly Cleary, beloved and prolific author of children\u2019s books, dies at 104<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0VALERIE J. NELSON<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beverly Cleary\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zr8RpsjUHps?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With witty yet economic prose and a gift for recalling the inner emotions of childhood, Beverly Cleary wove timeless tales that took young readers back to the Portland, Ore., of her youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her stories served as a collective touchstone for the childhoods of many baby boomers, and succeeding generations, who saw themselves in the pages of her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cleary died Thursday in Carmel, where she had lived since the 1960s. She was 104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grande dame of children\u2019s literature, she wrote both humorously and realistically about the anxieties of childhood in such enduringly popular books as \u201cHenry Huggins\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fbooks%2Fjacketcopy%2Fla-et-jc-beverly-cleary-childhood-home-for-sale-20130311-story.html&amp;data=04%7C01%7CSteve.Marble%40latimes.com%7C29ca5a07941f491ffc5908d8f0a0b8ad%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637523920376226796%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=SbaIJOQ7sU1f7wOv7fF%2FDjyI7f%2BzXuz76UEPfPmqUWE%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">Beezus and Ramona<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/obituaries\/story\/2021-03-26\/beverly-cleary-childrens-author-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Los Angeles Times Beverly Cleary, beloved and prolific author of children\u2019s books, dies at 104 By\u00a0VALERIE J. NELSON With witty yet economic prose and a gift for recalling the inner emotions of childhood, Beverly Cleary wove timeless tales that took young readers back to the Portland, Ore., of her youth. Her stories served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}