{"id":460,"date":"2012-05-10T19:53:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uconnnclc.wordpress.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2012-05-10T19:53:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T19:53:12","slug":"nclc-remembers-maurice-sendak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2012\/05\/10\/nclc-remembers-maurice-sendak\/","title":{"rendered":"NCLC remembers Maurice Sendak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite memory of Mr. Sendak comes from a dinner at Dean Emeritus Dr. David Woods&#8217; house.\u00a0 Dean Woods had invited a few folks over following Sendak&#8217;s\u00a0visit to UConn to deliver the inaugural Robert Gray Memorial Lecture.\u00a0 Another of the guests was Etienne Delessert, also a well-known children&#8217;s illustrator from western Connecticut.\u00a0 They discussed politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/nclc\/files\/2012\/05\/sendak_ser2_box5_folder273-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/nclc\/files\/2012\/05\/sendak_ser2_box5_folder273-2.jpg?w=350\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a>The NCLC holds original Sendak illustrations from the book he did with Ruth Krauss in 1952, <em>A hole is to dig.\u00a0<\/em> It was one of his first major books arranged by Ursula Nordstrom.\u00a0 The NCLC\u00a0also hold a few illustrations for <em>Somebody else&#8217;s nut tree<\/em>\u00a0by Krauss,\u00a0published in 1958.<\/p>\n<p>What a wonderful, scary, brilliant man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Terri J. Goldich, Curator<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite memory of Mr. Sendak comes from a dinner at Dean Emeritus Dr. David Woods&#8217; house.\u00a0 Dean Woods had invited a few folks over following Sendak&#8217;s\u00a0visit to UConn to deliver the inaugural Robert Gray Memorial Lecture.\u00a0 Another of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2012\/05\/10\/nclc-remembers-maurice-sendak\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,353,362,364,1],"tags":[73],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-7q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}