{"id":952,"date":"2010-12-16T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T12:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=952"},"modified":"2010-12-15T21:22:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T01:22:21","slug":"one-of-my-favorite-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/one-of-my-favorite-links\/","title":{"rendered":"One of my favorite links&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a children&#8217;s librarian, I&#8217;m constantly bombarded with patrons (both adults and children) who present me with odd-sounding pronunciations for difficult author names.\u00a0 Eoin Colfer????\u00a0 I can&#8217;t tell you how many different ways I&#8217;ve heard his name pronounced.\u00a0 Rick Riordan???\u00a0 Almost as bad.\u00a0 And, until about a year ago, I was just as in the dark about the correct way to pronounce these authors&#8217; names.\u00a0 But then I discovered one of my favorite reference websites:\u00a0 the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingbooks.net\/pronunciations.cgi\" target=\"_blank\">Author Name Pronunciation Guide<\/a>&#8221; on TeachingBooks.net.\u00a0 I love that they have an extensive resource of author name pronunciations, and that many living authors have recorded the correct pronunciations of their names, often with fun anecdotes to help the rest of us remember.\u00a0 Go ahead &#8211; give it a try.\u00a0 I guarantee you&#8217;ll be surprised by the right way to say some of your favorite authors&#8217; names!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a children&#8217;s librarian, I&#8217;m constantly bombarded with patrons (both adults and children) who present me with odd-sounding pronunciations for difficult author names.\u00a0 Eoin Colfer????\u00a0 I can&#8217;t tell you how many different ways I&#8217;ve heard his name pronounced.\u00a0 Rick Riordan???\u00a0 Almost as bad.\u00a0 And, until about a year ago, I was just as in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/one-of-my-favorite-links\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One of my favorite links&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-literature","category-librarianship","category-young-adult-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}