{"id":2411,"date":"2012-07-11T06:56:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2023-08-06T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T17:51:15","slug":"a-nancy-drew-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/11\/a-nancy-drew-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nancy Drew birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/mwb\/id\/970\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/07\/mwbphoto1.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Drew author Mildred Wirt Benson among her books, Toledo, 1949 | Mildred Wirt Benson Collection\" class=\"wp-image-2564\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nancy Drew author Mildred Wirt Benson among her books, Toledo, 1949 | Mildred Wirt Benson Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>University of Iowa alumna&nbsp;Mildred Wirt Benson &#8212; journalist, pilot, amateur archaeologist, ghost writer, and the original author of the Nancy Drew mystery series &#8212; was born on this day in 1905. To mark the anniversary, we&#8217;re featuring a gallery of her book covers, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/155233518376678276\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iconic<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/155233518376679283\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unintentionally terrifying<\/a>, on our <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/iowadiglib\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iowa Digital Library Pinterest<\/a> account. View even more digitized artifacts at the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/mwb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mildred Wirt Benson Digital Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/iowadiglib\/idl-mildred-wirt-benson-cover-gallery\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/07\/mwbpin.jpg\" alt=\"Pinterst - IDL: Mildred Wirt Benson cover gallery\" class=\"wp-image-2565\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pinterst &#8211; IDL: Mildred Wirt Benson cover gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Iowa alumna&nbsp;Mildred Wirt Benson &#8212; journalist, pilot, amateur archaeologist, ghost writer, and the original author of the Nancy Drew mystery series &#8212; was born on this day in 1905. To mark the anniversary, we&#8217;re featuring a gallery of her book covers, from the iconic to the unintentionally terrifying, on our Iowa Digital Library<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/11\/a-nancy-drew-birthday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A Nancy Drew birthday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5974,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/5974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}