{"id":2563,"date":"2012-07-10T20:45:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T20:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2012-09-13T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:37:25","slug":"a-nancy-drew-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2012\/07\/10\/a-nancy-drew-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nancy Drew birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2564\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/mwb,970\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2564\" 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\" width=\"475\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/07\/mwbphoto1.jpg 594w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/07\/mwbphoto1-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Drew author Mildred Wirt Benson among her books, Toledo, 1949 | Mildred Wirt Benson Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of Iowa alumna\u00a0Mildred 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\">iconic<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/155233518376679283\/\" target=\"_blank\">unintentionally terrifying<\/a>, on our <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/iowadiglib\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa Digital Library Pinterest<\/a> account. View even more digitized artifacts at the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/mwb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mildred Wirt Benson Digital Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2565\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/iowadiglib\/idl-mildred-wirt-benson-cover-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2565\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/07\/mwbpin.jpg\" alt=\"Pinterst - IDL: Mildred Wirt Benson cover gallery\" width=\"530\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/07\/mwbpin.jpg 945w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/07\/mwbpin-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pinterst - IDL: Mildred Wirt Benson cover gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Iowa alumna\u00a0Mildred 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\/studio\/2012\/07\/10\/a-nancy-drew-birthday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A Nancy Drew birthday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}