{"id":1860,"date":"2014-10-31T23:03:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T04:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2014-10-31T23:03:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T04:03:01","slug":"parish-peggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/parish-peggy\/","title":{"rendered":"Parish, Peggy"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1861 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ph_prsh.jpg\" alt=\"Peggy Parish\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1862 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_gran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"140\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1863 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_baby1.jpg\" alt=\"Amelia Bedelia and the Baby\" width=\"102\" height=\"137\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1864 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_key.jpg\" alt=\"Key to the Treasure\" width=\"94\" height=\"140\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"text10pt\"><span class=\"text10pt\">Margaret Cecile (Peggy) Parish was born on July 14, 1927 in South Carolina<\/span>. <span class=\"text10\">After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a degree in English, she taught school in Texas, Kentucky, and in New York at the Dalton School for a number of years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text10pt\"><span class=\"text10\">Her most loved series of books, Amelia Bedelia, were written because Ms. Parish was amused by how literally her students often answered her questions. She wrote many Amelia Bedelia books and did some interesting research for them. For example, when she wrote that Amelia Bedelia baked a sponge cake, Ms. Parish felt she had to know what would actually happen if someone baked a sponge\u2014so she did. (It stayed spongy.) She moved back to South Carolina, writing thirty books, of which twelve were about Amelia Bedelia. Although Peggy Parish died in 1988, many of her books are still in print.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Cecile (Peggy) Parish was born on July 14, 1927 in South Carolina. After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a degree in English, she taught school in Texas, Kentucky, and in New York at the Dalton School for a number of years. Her most loved series of books, Amelia Bedelia, were written &#8230; <a title=\"Parish, Peggy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/parish-peggy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Parish, Peggy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1020],"tags":[1025,542,432,408,1026,1024],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-p","tag-amelia-bedelia","tag-author","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-margaret-cecile-parish","tag-peggy-parish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-u0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}