{"id":322,"date":"2009-12-15T18:32:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T18:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/?page_id=322"},"modified":"2024-12-04T16:48:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:48:37","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/THE-Liz-cartoon-purple-trans.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/THE-Liz-cartoon-purple-trans.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-455\" title=\"THE Liz cartoon purple trans\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/THE-Liz-cartoon-purple-trans.png 375w, https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/THE-Liz-cartoon-purple-trans-234x300.png 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello! I\u2019m Liz Brownlee, children\u2019s poet, and down by my feet is Paddy, my trainee medical alert dog. Come along into my website to find lots of poems, but especially ANIMAL poems!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll also find lots of fun poetry animations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m very proud to be a National Poetry Day Ambassador. Poetry is a crucial resource in teaching children to read. As the Centre for Learning in Primary Education (CLPE) states: <b>Poetry&#8217;s rhythms and patterns introduce children to a range of reading skills<\/b>. Children naturally pick up rhymes and rhythms, they want to join in, they enjoy the experience \u2013 and a rich experience of hearing and learning poems is a fantastic way of learning how language works.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-c05bc6f734b9bee0052cc3a49c9fd499 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#087bbe\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">NEWSFLASH! Info about me, my books and what you can book me for is under the Contact tab.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\">Click on the links below to enter the site&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I\u2019m Liz Brownlee, children\u2019s poet, and down by my feet is Paddy, my trainee medical alert dog. Come along into my website to find lots of poems, but especially ANIMAL poems! You&#8217;ll also find lots of fun poetry animations! I&#8217;m very proud to be a National Poetry Day Ambassador. Poetry is a crucial resource [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-322","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/322\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}