{"id":949,"date":"2019-02-20T17:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2019-02-20T17:10:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:10:45","slug":"kids-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/kids-and-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids and Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t like to hear those two words in the same sentence. Monday I visited a school in my home town in Iowa. I did my usual presentations-first to a lively group of 3-6 year olds, then to grades 2-4 and finally 5-6th graders. I shared my author journey, did some magic tricks, had students act out a story we created together and read my newest book, Claire&#8217;s Hair, before signing books for students. In between the first 2 sessions, a girl came up to me and told me her five year old brother had cancer and wasn&#8217;t in school because he was going through yet another round of chemo and it was a particular rough patch for him. She said her mother had bought Claire&#8217;s Hair because it was about a boy who had lost his hair, like her brother had after his cancer treatments. I signed her book and, since my book is about how Claire gets a big hairy idea to bring the laughter back to her friend, I asked<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-950 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_7598-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_7598-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_7598-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_7598-1-1080x1440.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> what made her brother laugh. She giggled and said, &#8220;a whoopie cushion!&#8221; \u00a0Ahhh. Kids and laughter. It&#8217;s the best medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t like to hear those two words in the same sentence. Monday I visited a school in my home town in Iowa. I did my usual presentations-first to a lively group of 3-6 year olds, then to grades 2-4 and finally 5-6th graders. I shared my author journey, did some magic tricks, had students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}