{"id":1139,"date":"2007-11-26T08:42:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T12:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2007-11-26T08:42:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T12:42:24","slug":"florida-doe-omits-patricia-polacco-from-holiday-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"Florida DOE omits Patricia Polacco from holiday reading list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missing from the state&#8217;s list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justreadfamilies.org\/holidays\/reading.asp\">Recommended Holiday Reading<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciapolacco.com\/\">Patricia Polacco<\/a>, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciapolacco.com\/books\/trees_of_dancing_goats\/trees_of_dancing_goats.html\">The Trees of the Dancing Goats<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciapolacco.com\/books\/tapestry\/tapestry_index.html\">Christmas Tapestry<\/a> are her typical tear-jerking, wonderfully-illustrated fare. <em>The Trees of the Dancing Goats<\/em> is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klas.com\/cgi-bin\/webopac.cgi\/fl1a?CurrScr=SearchResult&amp;Action=DisplayTitle&amp;BibRecObj=81938443.6332&amp;PatScr=SearchResults&amp;SeqNum=10&amp;StartNumber=1&amp;StopNUmber=11&amp;SessionFile=0000006275\">available through the Florida Braille and Talking Books Libraries<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure this is unrelated to the <a href=\"http:\/\/gottabook.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/sramcgraw-hill-patricia-polacco.html\">controversy over Polacco&#8217;s &#8220;disinvitation&#8221;<\/a> from the 2006 International Reading Association conference by McGraw-Hill because she opposes No Child Left Behind. Or to the fact that the books are explicitly ecumenical. But it&#8217;s a shame nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing from the state&#8217;s list of Recommended Holiday Reading: Patricia Polacco, whose The Trees of the Dancing Goats and Christmas Tapestry are her typical tear-jerking, wonderfully-illustrated fare. The Trees of the Dancing Goats is also available through the Florida Braille and Talking Books Libraries. I&#8217;m sure this is unrelated to the controversy over Polacco&#8217;s &#8220;disinvitation&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-in","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}