{"id":2502,"date":"2022-04-16T21:37:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/jeff-kinney-on-his-rise-from-wimpy-kid-to-celebrated-childrens-author\/"},"modified":"2022-04-16T21:37:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T21:37:10","slug":"jeff-kinney-on-his-rise-from-wimpy-kid-to-celebrated-childrens-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Kinney on his rise from &#8216;Wimpy Kid&#8217; to celebrated children&#8217;s author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cCxfCppoBtM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It has been 15 years this month since \u201cDiary of a Wimpy Kid\u201d made author Jeff Kinney one of the world\u2019s most popular writers. Geoff Bennett spoke with Kinney about the bestselling series, his children&#8217;s literature and the mark he&#8217;s left.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<\/a><br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nFacebook:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:<br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\nNewsletters:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 15 years this month since \u201cDiary of a Wimpy Kid\u201d made author Jeff Kinney one of the world\u2019s most popular writers. Geoff Bennett spoke with Kinney about the bestselling series, his children&#8217;s literature and the mark he&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4988],"tags":[5420,5421,5412,5414,5413,5416,5415,5417,5418,5419,5422],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-politics-feed","tag-best-seller","tag-childrens-books","tag-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid","tag-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-books","tag-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-jeff-kinney","tag-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-movie","tag-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-series","tag-jeff-kinney","tag-new-york-times-best-seller","tag-new-york-times-best-selling-author","tag-popular-book-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}