{"id":23701,"date":"2012-05-08T13:57:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T13:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/once-a-little-boy-sent-me-a-charming-card-with-a\/"},"modified":"2012-05-08T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T13:57:30","slug":"once-a-little-boy-sent-me-a-charming-card-with-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/once-a-little-boy-sent-me-a-charming-card-with-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children\u2019s letters \u2014 sometimes very hastily \u2014 but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, \u201cDear Jim: I loved your card.\u201d Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, \u201cJim loved your card so much he ate it.\u201d That to me was one of the highest compliments I\u2019ve ever received. He didn\u2019t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Maurice Sendak. RIP. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.catherinecampbell.net\/the_my_folk_lover_blog\/2010\/11\/once-a-little-boy-sent-me-a-charming-card-with-a-little-drawing-on-it-i-loved-it-i-answer-all-my-childrens-letters.html\">Catherine Campbell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mdashing.blogspot.com\/\">Michelle<\/a>.)\u00a0 (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nextness.tumblr.com\/\">nextness<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children\u2019s letters \u2014 sometimes very hastily \u2014 but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, \u201cDear Jim: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6ah","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}