{"id":511,"date":"2014-12-15T11:05:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/?p=511"},"modified":"2014-12-15T11:05:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T11:05:49","slug":"thank-you-from-some-of-my-young-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Thank you from some of my young readers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png?w=620\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div><h3>Returning to England after my recent tour I was delighted, as you can imagine, to receive thank you notes and drawings from some of my younger American readers.<\/h3>\n<p>What a pleasure, as the cold wind whips across the avenues of a London winter, to look at the gallery below and to remember all the new faces, and some that I knew already, that I met on my recent trip to the US.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"620\" data-carousel-extra='null' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 620px; 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height: 421px;\" \/> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>Here are some of the creative pieces sent by children from the US. Thank you to them for all their hard work and their interest in my books, my writing and my travels.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ifeoma<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to England after my recent tour I was delighted, as you can imagine, to receive thank you notes and drawings from some of my younger American readers. What a pleasure, as the cold wind whips across the avenues of a London winter, to look at the gallery below and to remember all&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/?p=511\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19,4,16],"tags":[22,25,72,8,42,71,40],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zNen-8f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ifeomaonyefulu.co.uk\/mytravels\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}