{"id":56767,"date":"2025-08-10T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56767\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:50:10","slug":"sunderland-volunteer-stars-in-new-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56767\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland volunteer stars in new children&#8217;s book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/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":56768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-56767","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}