{"id":446,"date":"2009-10-25T14:45:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2009-10-25T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:45:34","slug":"sprout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/446","title":{"rendered":"Sprout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-447\" title=\"sprout\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sprout.jpg?w=194\" alt=\"sprout\" width=\"155\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sprout.jpg 389w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sprout-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/>Peck, Dale. <em>Sprout. <\/em>2009. 277 p. Bloomsbury. $16.99. (978-1-59990-160-2). Gr. 9-12.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teenager Sprout has a secret. And it\u2019s not his green hair (duh). And it\u2019s not the fact that he\u2019s gay, though his English teacher, the redoubtable \u2013 and occasionally inebriated &#8212; Mrs. Miller, who is coaching him for the Kansas State Essay Contest, wishes it were. No, it\u2019s \u2013 oh, heck, just read this offbeat, occasionally over-the-top but always engaging gay coming-of-age-in-conservative-Kansas story to find out. You may be surprised.\u00a0 <em>\u2013 Michael Cart<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peck, Dale. Sprout. 2009. 277 p. Bloomsbury. $16.99. (978-1-59990-160-2). Gr. 9-12. Teenager Sprout has a secret. And it\u2019s not his green hair (duh). And it\u2019s not the fact that he\u2019s gay, though his English teacher, the redoubtable \u2013 and occasionally inebriated &#8212; Mrs. Miller, who is coaching him for the Kansas State Essay Contest, wishes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[57,224],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-dale-peck","tag-sprout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}