{"id":9784,"date":"2025-02-02T00:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T00:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=9784"},"modified":"2025-02-02T00:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T00:44:21","slug":"a-shout-out-to-karen-autio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/a-shout-out-to-karen-autio\/","title":{"rendered":"A shout-out to Karen Autio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/marshakaren.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9750\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/karenautio.com\/\">Karen Autio<\/a> is a gifted author of books for children and she&#8217;s written from a broad range of themes, most recently, inclusion and friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"9785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/I-can-240x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/I-can-240x300-1.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/I-can-240x300-1-120x150.jpeg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1000\" data-id=\"9787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/makingseeker.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/makingseeker.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/makingseeker-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/makingseeker-105x150.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"571\" data-id=\"9786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kahlan.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9786\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I first met Karen decades ago but we live at opposite ends of the country so don&#8217;t see each other that often. We met up before the launch and had dinner together and then throughout the launch, she looked after me, bringing cookies, making sure I didn&#8217;t lose things, taking pictures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out her books! They are WONDERFUL!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"9776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/k5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/k5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/k5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/k5-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/k5-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/k5-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/k5.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"9759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/hugskaren-700x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/hugskaren-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/hugskaren-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/hugskaren-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/hugskaren.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Karen Autio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Autio is a gifted author of books for children and she&#8217;s written from a broad range of themes, most recently, inclusion and friendship. I first met Karen decades ago but we live at opposite ends of the country so don&#8217;t see each other that often. We met up before the launch and had dinner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/a-shout-out-to-karen-autio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A shout-out to Karen Autio&#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":[926,269,353],"class_list":["post-9784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-i-can-too","tag-karen-autio","tag-scholastic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784","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=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9788,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions\/9788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}