{"id":3906,"date":"2022-02-11T15:49:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T15:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2022-02-11T15:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T15:51:17","slug":"mary-c-sheppard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/mary-c-sheppard\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary C. Sheppard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3906\" class=\"elementor elementor-3906\" wpc-filter-elementor-widget=\"1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d0d9ccd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d0d9ccd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a12f9fd\" data-id=\"a12f9fd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd0b0d5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dd0b0d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3907 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mary_Sheppard-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mary C. Sheppard\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mary_Sheppard-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mary_Sheppard-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Mary_Sheppard.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_black\">Author<\/span><\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/private-funds-awards-and-programs\/\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children&#8217;s Book Awards &#8211; Young Adult \/ Middle Reader<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_black\">2002 Recipient<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\"><em>&#8221;\u00a0Winning this award\u00a0was very important. It helped me to believe in myself and go on to publish two more books with Penguin and now the fourth. When I get discouraged I remind myself that I won this award, voted on by the teens. &#8220;<\/em><\/span><\/p><p><strong><span class=\"blue\">What are you currently doing?<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">I am close to finishing my fourth teen novel. Since the Award I went back to work at CBC for nine years where I was the executive producer for CBC.ca<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"blue\"><strong>What did receiving the\u00a0Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children&#8217;s Book Award for\u00a0Young Adult \/ Middle Reader mean to you?<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">It was very important. It helped me to believe in myself and go on to publish two more books with Penguin and now the fourth. When I get discouraged I remind myself that I won this award, voted on by the teens.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"blue\"><strong>What does private arts philanthropy mean to you as a working artist?<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"plain_grey\">Very important. It was lovely that a cheque came with the award and that someone took the time to set out a program to recognize children\u2019s writers. Too often awards come with strings &#8211; a week in a school environment or such. I prefer to devote my time to writing. I think this award is very special and is my most treasured honour.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author,<\/p>\n<p>Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children&#8217;s Book Awards,<br \/>\n2002 Recipient<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oaf-award-recipients"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oafdn.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}