{"id":61,"date":"2007-09-07T14:42:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=61"},"modified":"2011-03-29T18:05:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:05:44","slug":"madeleine-l%e2%80%99engle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine L\u2019Engle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry\">One of my all-time favorite authors, Madeleine L\u2019Engle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6476596.html\">died last night at the age of 88. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A Wrinkle in Time<\/em> was one of the first science fiction books I ever read\u2026and reread. It was inspirational to me, both as a young reader and as a young writer. The main character, Meg, reminded me a lot of myself as a teenager. She was a good person, a strong person, but unsure of herself.<\/p>\n<p>Madeleine L\u2019Engle is one of the reasons that I began writing science fiction and fantasy stories as a young teen. I didn\u2019t borrow her ideas, I just read her stories and fell in love with the possibilities inherent in other-worldly fiction. I first read her books in sixth grade, the same year I began to fill notebooks with scattered ideas and ramblings.<\/p>\n<p>If I could inspire one person with my writing the way Madeleine L\u2019Engle inspired me, then it will have all been worth it. She will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favorite authors, Madeleine L\u2019Engle, died last night at the age of 88. A Wrinkle in Time was one of the first science fiction books I ever read\u2026and reread. It was inspirational to me, both as a young reader and as a young writer. The main character, Meg, reminded me a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,56,9,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-chitchat","category-science-fiction-what-im-reading","category-touch-of-fate","category-young-adult-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}