{"id":332622,"date":"2025-08-10T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332622\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:57:12","slug":"sunderland-volunteer-stars-in-new-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332622\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland volunteer stars in new children&#8217;s book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A volunteer says he is &#8220;so proud&#8221; to be the star of a community organisation&#8217;s book encouraging children to grow at their own pace.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack Dillon, from Sunderland, who has Down&#8217;s syndrome, is the inspiration behind one of the characters in The Story of the Lazy Loaf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old, who has been volunteering at The Bunker and Sunshine Co-operative in the city, said he was thrilled to be included in the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Author and founder of Raising Dough CIC Jo Gordon said Mr Dillon was a &#8220;legend&#8221; and a &#8220;larger than life character&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A volunteer says he is &#8220;so proud&#8221; to be the star of a community organisation&#8217;s book encouraging children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-332622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115003408411803700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}