{"id":6778,"date":"2020-03-17T02:43:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T02:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2020-03-17T02:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T02:44:43","slug":"once-upon-a-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/once-upon-a-bookstore\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After finishing Monday&#8217;s presentations, Pat dropped me off at Once Upon a Bookstore, a wonderful children&#8217;s bookstore owned and operated by Melissa Bourdon-King. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melissa-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melissa-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melissa-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melissa-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melissa.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a pic of Melissa and her mother at Once Upon a Bookstore in Kelowna.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I loved browsing this beautiful store and it was interesting to chat with Melissa and her mother about the research and planning that goes in to their selections. Children&#8217;s authors are fortunate to have advocates like Melissa and Once Upon a Bookstore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melissasmom-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6782\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melissasmom.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6782\" class=\"wp-image-6782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melissasmom-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melissasmom-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melissasmom-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/melissasmom.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Melissa&#8217;s mom led me over to their authors&#8217; signing wall and handed me a pen!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kevinsdragon-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6780\" class=\"wp-image-6780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kevinsdragon-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kevinsdragon-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kevinsdragon-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kevinsdragon.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">But how can one compete with this!!?? It&#8217;s Kevin Sylvester&#8217;s dragon! Speak about over-achieving!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/richardselbow-1024x877.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6781\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=6781\" class=\"wp-image-6781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/richardselbow-1024x877.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/richardselbow-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/richardselbow-150x128.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/richardselbow-1200x1027.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/richardselbow.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Richard Scrimger drew an elbow. Not quite so intimidating. I drew a pysanka (what else is new?!)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing Monday&#8217;s presentations, Pat dropped me off at Once Upon a Bookstore, a wonderful children&#8217;s bookstore owned and operated by Melissa Bourdon-King. I loved browsing this beautiful store and it was interesting to chat with Melissa and her mother about the research and planning that goes in to their selections. Children&#8217;s authors are fortunate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/once-upon-a-bookstore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Once Upon a Bookstore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[489,492,494,493,491],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-kelowna","tag-kevin-sylvester","tag-melissa-bourdon-king","tag-once-upon-a-bookstore","tag-richard-scrimger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","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=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6783,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions\/6783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}