{"id":5040,"date":"2014-12-18T16:53:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T16:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2014-12-18T16:54:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T16:54:43","slug":"farewell-to-norman-bridwell-creator-of-clifford-the-big-red-dog-ne-childrens-lit-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/12\/18\/farewell-to-norman-bridwell-creator-of-clifford-the-big-red-dog-ne-childrens-lit-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Norman Bridwell, creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog | NE Children&#8217;s Lit Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #373737;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;font-style: normal;line-height: 24.375px\">Norman Ray Bridwell of Edgartown, who brought delight to millions of readers young and old as the author of\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"border: 0px;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline;color: #373737;line-height: 24.375px\">Clifford the Big Red Dog<\/em><span style=\"color: #373737;font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;font-style: normal;line-height: 24.375px\">\u00a0series of books, died on Friday, December 12, at Martha\u2019s Vineyard Hospital. He was 86.\u00a0Norman Bridwell was born in Kokomo, Indiana, in 1928, according to a biography by Scholastic Books. He studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and Cooper Union Art School in New York before working as a commercial artist for 12 years. \u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/nclc\/2014\/12\/17\/farewell-to-norman-bridwell-creator-of-clifford-the-big-red-dog-dead-at-86\/\">Read More &gt;<\/a><\/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>Norman Ray Bridwell of Edgartown, who brought delight to millions of readers young and old as the author of\u00a0Clifford the Big Red Dog\u00a0series of books, died on Friday, December 12, at Martha\u2019s Vineyard Hospital. He was 86.\u00a0Norman Bridwell was born &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/12\/18\/farewell-to-norman-bridwell-creator-of-clifford-the-big-red-dog-ne-childrens-lit-collection\/\">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":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-1ji","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040"}],"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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5042,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions\/5042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}