{"id":622,"date":"2012-11-07T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=622"},"modified":"2012-11-07T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:29:09","slug":"val-biro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2012\/11\/07\/val-biro\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Biro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was very pleased to be able to meet up with world famous book illustrator Val Biro last Sunday, it was a pleasure to spend the afternoon with him in his studio in West Sussex. I think he was pleasantly surprised to see the 20 or so PAN covers I took, all\u00a0from the early 50&#8217;s that he had forgotten he had produced. He also signed all my Piccolo &#8216;Gumdrop&#8217; books and I am putting a page together about him this week.<br \/>\nIf you want to find out more about Val, Cameron Cunningham runs the excellent official <a title=\"Val Biro Website\" href=\"http:\/\/cunninghamh.tripod.com\/books\/valbiro\/valbiro-index.htm\">Val Biro website<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ValBiro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-623\" title=\"Me with Val Biro\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ValBiro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ValBiro.jpg 564w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/ValBiro-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very pleased to be able to meet up with world famous book illustrator Val Biro last Sunday, it was a pleasure to spend the afternoon with him in his studio in West Sussex. I think he was pleasantly surprised to see the 20 or so PAN covers I took, all\u00a0from the early 50&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}