{"id":5244,"date":"2009-12-23T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2009-12-08T10:28:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:28:56","slug":"the-christmas-miracle-of-jonathan-toomey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-christmas-miracle-of-jonathan-toomey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|207924\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5315\" title=\"christmasmiracle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmasmiracle1.jpg?resize=283%2C219&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"christmasmiracle\" width=\"283\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmasmiracle1.jpg?w=648&amp;ssl=1 648w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmasmiracle1.jpg?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a>In searching for something new to read in celebration of the season, I came across this beautiful picture book by Susan Wojciechowski.\u00a0 The author had worked as a school librarian and admitted that &#8220;every December, I read the same two or three classic Christmas stories aloud to the students.\u00a0 I wanted another special one to read aloud, so I tried to write my own.&#8221;\u00a0 She has succeeded with <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|207924\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey<\/strong><\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a lovely book, handsomely illustrated by P.J. Lynch, who actually traveled from his home in Ireland to do research at a Vermont museum to further authenticate his artwork.\u00a0 He too, succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, Mr. Toomey is a gloomy woodcarver whose wife and baby died.\u00a0 He is approached by the widow McDowell and her son who ask him to carve a nativity scene to replace one lost in a recent move.\u00a0 During the time that it takes to carve the set, Mr. Toomey not only comes to terms with his grief, but he also\u00a0begins to appreciate\u00a0his life anew. A touching story and recommended for children and adults alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In searching for something new to read in celebration of the season, I came across this beautiful picture book by Susan Wojciechowski.\u00a0 The author had worked as a school librarian and admitted that &#8220;every December, I read the same two or three classic Christmas stories aloud to the students.\u00a0 I<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-christmas-miracle-of-jonathan-toomey\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[351,950,949,951],"class_list":["post-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-christmas","tag-forgiveness","tag-miracle","tag-woodcarving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1mA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5321,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}