{"id":25859,"date":"2015-06-18T22:11:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T02:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25859"},"modified":"2015-06-18T22:11:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T02:11:46","slug":"what-it-means-to-invest-in-a-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25859","title":{"rendered":"What It Means To Invest In A Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love what <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jeff Kinney (writer)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wimpykid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Jeff Kinney<\/a> (author of the Wimpy Kid books) is doing for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Plainville, Massachusetts\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=42.0041666667,-71.3333333333&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=42.0041666667,-71.3333333333 (Plainville%2C%20Massachusetts)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Plainville, Massachusetts<\/a>. He has removed an eyesore from the center of town and replaced it with a wonderful bookstore, but he hasn&#8217;t stopped there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesunchronicle.com\/news\/local_news\/wood-school-fourth-graders-turned-authors-meet-their-publisher\/article_cf58032e-1564-11e5-9361-e704bfe1b3ca.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Attleboro Sun Chronicle<\/a> posted a story today about his latest contribution to the town.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Troy Kinney\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troy_Kinney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">The Kinneys<\/a> were at a book conference in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Los Angeles\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=34.05,-118.25&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=34.05,-118.25 (Los%20Angeles)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Los Angeles<\/a>, where Julie Kinney found a booth staffed by Write Brain Books <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Publishing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Publishing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">publishing company<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The firm publishes children\u2019s book with illustrations, but no text. Children are expected to write their own stories to go with the drawings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Julie Kinney brought four of the books to Wood School in Plainville, where fourth-grade teacher Devon Almeida turned them into a major project for her students.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Now, their versions of the books have been published and are going on sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesunchronicle.com\/news\/local_news\/wimpy-kid-author-starts-chapter-with-opening-of-an-unlikely\/article_af2fb612-061b-11e5-9b1c-4b192f7d3a16.html\">An Unlikely Story bookstore in Plainville<\/a>, which is owed by Jeff Kinney.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The children presented their stories to parents Wednesday at the school. Write Brain founder and CEO <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Meredith Scott Lynn\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meredith_Scott_Lynn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Meredith Scott Lynn<\/a> flew in from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"California\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.0,-120.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=37.0,-120.0 (California)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">California<\/a> for the occasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love the fact that the books the students wrote will be sold at An Unlikely Story bookstore. Thank you, Jeff Kinney, for all you are doing for Plainville.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love what Jeff Kinney (author of the Wimpy Kid books) is doing for Plainville, Massachusetts. He has removed an eyesore from the center of town and replaced it with a wonderful bookstore, but he hasn&#8217;t stopped there. The Attleboro &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25859\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9121,9122,30,9035,3970,142,4067],"class_list":["post-25859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-booksellers-association","tag-an-unlikely-story","tag-california","tag-jeff-kinney-writer","tag-los-angeles","tag-massachusetts","tag-plainville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25860,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25859\/revisions\/25860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}