{"id":270,"date":"2023-01-19T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T14:33:21","slug":"dear-mr-baum-and-brother-frank-part-three-correspondence-to-and-reflections-responses-and-inscriptions-from-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/dear-mr-baum-and-brother-frank-part-three-correspondence-to-and-reflections-responses-and-inscriptions-from-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By John Fricke<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"777\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/BaumToCarltonDavisCropped-777x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/BaumToCarltonDavisCropped-777x1024.jpg 777w, https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/BaumToCarltonDavisCropped-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/BaumToCarltonDavisCropped-768x1012.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/BaumToCarltonDavisCropped-1568x2065.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/BaumToCarltonDavisCropped.jpg 2031w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><figcaption>Above: This handwritten letter from L. Frank Baum to young Oz fan, Carleton H. Davis, is reprinted from THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF OZ\/AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CLASSIC (Down East Books, 2013), a book I was privileged to write to detail the history of all-things-Oz from 1900 to 2013. (Such a comprehensive summation, with over four hundred illustrations, could only have been compiled and presented in conjunction with the world","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Fricke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,21,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthingsoz.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}