{"id":239,"date":"2011-08-31T15:49:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T15:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.annmcgovern.com\/?page_id=239"},"modified":"2015-09-29T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T15:49:40","slug":"special-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/annmcgovern.com\/?page_id=239","title":{"rendered":"Special News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends and readers,<\/p>\n<p>The family of Ann McGovern wanted to share with you, her readers, that Ann peacefully passed away on August 8th.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, donations in Ann\u2019s memory may be made to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seo-usa.org\/donatenow\" target=\"_blank\">Sponsors for Educational Opportunity<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/interland3.donorperfect.net\/weblink\/WebLink.aspx?name=E165152&amp;id=5\" target=\"_blank\">Goddard Riverside Community Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several newspapers have written obituaries for her:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/12\/books\/ann-mcgovern-author-is-dead-at-85-she-made-stone-soup-a-school-staple.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-ann-mcgovern-20150813-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/ann-mcgovern-author-of-stone-soup-and-other-childrens-books-dies-at-85\/2015\/08\/12\/50682d6c-40fe-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/obituaries\/2015\/08\/13\/ann-mcgovern-author-stone-soup-and-other-children-books-dies\/bQzSKi4DN9IIhNrkyqSx5J\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Globe <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slj.com\/2015\/08\/industry-news\/stone-soup-author-ann-mcgovern-dies-at-85\/\" target=\"_blank\">School Library Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nation\/ann-mcgovern-dead-author-of-stone-soup-and-other-children-s-books-was-85-1.10741259\" target=\"_blank\">Newsday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oomscholasticblog.com\/post\/obituary-ann-mcgovern-childrens-author-and-editor-and-member-scholastic-family\" target=\"_blank\">Scholastic <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookboxdaily.scholastic.com\/2015\/08\/12\/remembering-ann-mcgovern\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scholastic Reading Club<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends and readers, The family of Ann McGovern wanted to share with you, her readers, that Ann peacefully passed away on August 8th. In lieu of flowers, donations in Ann\u2019s memory may be made to Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and Goddard Riverside Community Center. Several newspapers have written obituaries for her: New York Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-239","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annmcgovern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annmcgovern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annmcgovern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annmcgovern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annmcgovern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/annmcgovern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/annmcgovern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239\/revisions\/1695"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annmcgovern.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annmcgovern.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}