{"id":237,"date":"2024-12-06T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/?p=237"},"modified":"2024-12-24T23:21:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T23:21:10","slug":"my-first-student-lettersmelt-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/my-first-student-lettersmelt-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"My first student letters\u2026melt my heart!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-156\" src=\"https:\/\/joanepp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_6794.jpeg?w=768\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure><p>After another round of school visits I sat down and opened the letters from a really special class. (To be fair, they are all special!) I was immediately transported back to my days of teaching and it hit every nostalgic bone in my body.<\/p><p>When I opened the pack of letters, I wondered if Children across Canada were going to get to write Santa Letters this year\u2026 given the postal strike I wasn&#8217;t sure. So I wanted to make sure I responded to every one of those carefully constructed handwritten student notes bursting with questions about Ice Cap!<\/p><p>Is it hard to be an author? Not when writing is a passion!<\/p><p>How did Ice Cap become a snowman? He came from my own ideas and from the imagination of my grandaughter who thought our snowman should be modern, cool, and kind!<\/p><p>How long did it take to make the book?It took about half a year to write and polish and about a year and a half to publish.<\/p><p>Why do you like to be an author? Being an author is just part of my personality. Writing is a passion, rhyming and finding the right words to create feelings and images in a persons mind just fills me with happiness!<\/p><p>I look forward to the stories that children will send on my website: joanepp.com and I hope many children will enjoy Ice Cap too!<\/p><p>Ciao for now!<\/p><p>Joan Epp\u26c4\u2744\ufe0f\ud83d\udc95<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After another round of school visits I sat down and opened the letters from a really special class. (To be fair, they are all special!) I was immediately transported back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Joanepp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}