{"id":1731,"date":"2013-02-04T19:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T00:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calla2.com\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2020-05-25T22:29:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T22:29:59","slug":"i-heart-ola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/i-heart-ola\/","title":{"rendered":"I heart OLA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/gianna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-7004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/gianna-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/gianna-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/gianna-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/gianna-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/gianna-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/gianna-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/gianna.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Where can a Canadian children&#8217;s author feel like a rock star? At the Superconference, and at Forest of Reading events &#8212; both organized by the OLA!<\/p>\n<p>What a wonderful time I had last week, meeting up with fellow writers, teacher-librarians and librarians. I am especially in awe of the myriad of volunteers who run the Forest of Reading festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of me with the wonderful Gianna Dassios, who co-chairs the Forest of Reading with Helen Kubiw. We ran into each other at the Second Cup and she bought me a heart.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1732\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/calla2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/marshagianna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1732\" title=\"marshagianna\" src=\"http:\/\/calla2.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/marshagianna-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the OLA Superconference with Gianna Dassios.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where can a Canadian children&#8217;s author feel like a rock star? At the Superconference, and at Forest of Reading events &#8212; both organized by the OLA! What a wonderful time I had last week, meeting up with fellow writers, teacher-librarians and librarians. I am especially in awe of the myriad of volunteers who run the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/i-heart-ola\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I heart OLA!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7005,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}