{"id":551,"date":"2021-07-13T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigissuesforlittlepeople.co.uk\/?p=551"},"modified":"2021-07-13T20:01:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T20:01:16","slug":"ivy-and-the-duchess-of-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samchilds.co.uk\/jesschildsbooks\/2021\/07\/13\/ivy-and-the-duchess-of-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy and&#8230;the Duchess of York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_f_M4SfLvHs\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I almost fell off my chair when the Duchess of York&#8217;s office emailed to say she would be reading Ivy and the Rock on her YouTube channel. It was a surreal moment for many reasons, not least because we happened to be staying in London right around the corner from Buckingham Palace at the time (alright, I know she doesn&#8217;t actually live there, but still). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a glorious secret I managed to keep from just about everyone apart from my husband for the next five days, and one which allowed me a little wry smile to myself as we walked down the Mall, past the Palace and through Hyde Park back to the train station the following day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Duchess (well her office, I suppose) has been very complimentary about the story of Ivy and it&#8217;s given me a massive boost when it comes to helping Big Issues For Little People continue to grow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before then it had been a funny (not ha ha) few months, where the predictable post book launch slump had left me with a hefty dose of fatigue when it came to promoting Ivy, and thinking about how to get her next story off the ground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was also the run up to me entering a new decade, which this time round somehow felt more monumental than the three times I&#8217;d done it before. It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to work out why I suppose and, no, it wasn&#8217;t half as bad as I thought it was going to be in the end and, yes, I was absolutely spoiled rotten (see aforementioned trip to the big smoke). And then, The Duchess of York read the book I WROTE on the internet to thousands of people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, in short, I&#8217;ve had worse birthdays &#8211; even if it does mean I&#8217;m officially in my 40s now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost fell off my chair when the Duchess of York&#8217;s office emailed to say she would be reading Ivy and the Rock on her YouTube channel. It was a surreal moment for many reasons, not least because we happened to be staying in London right around the corner from Buckingham Palace at the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samchilds.co.uk\/jesschildsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samchilds.co.uk\/jesschildsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samchilds.co.uk\/jesschildsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samchilds.co.uk\/jesschildsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samchilds.co.uk\/jesschildsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/samchilds.co.uk\/jesschildsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/samchilds.co.uk\/jesschildsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samchilds.co.uk\/jesschildsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samchilds.co.uk\/jesschildsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samchilds.co.uk\/jesschildsbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}