{"id":994,"date":"2019-05-05T15:03:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T15:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2019-05-05T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T15:03:18","slug":"super-saturday-medal-mania-and-a-man-named-walter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/05\/super-saturday-medal-mania-and-a-man-named-walter\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Saturday, Medal Mania and a man named Walter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, how can it be that I haven&#8217;t posted for nearly 2 months. Seemed I just did that&#8230;but I&#8217;m back!<\/p>\n<p>Did you know yesterday was Super Saturday? (This is where you say, really? why&#8217;s that?)Well, first-Mother Nature delivered an absolutely PERFECT 10 for weather and, after our Minnesota winter and not so great spring, we are READY!<\/p>\n<p>Second-my daughter, Nicole, and I participated in the World Vision Global 6K near a gorgeous park\/lake.This\u00a0is a annual event where people from all over the world walk or run 6K to bring lasting clean water to children in need. Why a 6K? It\u2019s\u00a0the average round trip distance women and children in the developing world walk for water \u2014 water that often causes life-threatening illnesses. I have a middle grade novel about this due out next year. Stay tuned!<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-995\" src=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_8073-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_8073-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_8073-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_8073-1080x1440.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Third-My latest picture book, Claire&#8217;s Hair, was a finalist in 3 of the 29 award categories at the Midwest Book Awards Gala last evening in St. Paul. It won in 2 of them!&#8211;for Children&#8217;s Fiction and Illustrations (thank you Sara Weingartner!). Only got beat out in the total book design category by former VP Walter Mondale&#8217;s book. It&#8217;s okay Walter-no grudges, your book is beautiful! I&#8217;m honored to be in the finalist category with a former Vice President! I hope I am still putting out award-winning books when I&#8217;m 91. Thank you for inspiring writers.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-997\" src=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5528-e1557068193558-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5528-e1557068193558-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5528-e1557068193558.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-996\" src=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5531-e1557068051585-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5531-e1557068051585-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5531-e1557068051585.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_5531-300&#215;225.jpg<\/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\/994"}],"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=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}