{"id":6548,"date":"2018-09-26T15:50:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2023-09-24T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T19:36:36","slug":"author-of-strong-is-the-new-pretty-honored-by-city-of-roswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=6548","title":{"rendered":"Author of &#8216;Strong is the New Pretty&#8217; honored by city of Roswell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>September 24, 2018 is now known as \u201cStrong is the New Pretty Day\u201d in Roswell. Mayor Lori Henry issued a proclamation recognizing this special day at the second regularly scheduled Mayor and Council Meeting this month.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>\u201cStrong is the New Pretty\u201d is an international bestseller by author, Roswell resident and mother of two girls, Kate T. Parker. The book, which can be found in over 35 countries and 10 languages, showcases young girls just as they are: \u201cloud, messy, silly, fearless, independent, confident and fierce.\u201d The book was published in March 2017 and Parker is working on three follow-up books to be released between this year and 2020.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>Over 30 girls were recognized alongside Parker at Monday\u2019s meeting. \u201cThis day was so special! It was an honor for me to see these girls celebrated. They were so proud of themselves, and this is the message I wanted to portray in the book,\u201d said Parker.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>The book\u2019s images have been embraced from Bangalore to Boston and <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Atlanta<\/a> to Australia. It has been featured on CNN, The Today Show, Amy Poehler\u2019s Smart Girls at the Party, Zooey Deschanel\u2019s Hello Giggles, Buzzfeed, Mashable, The Washington Post, A Mighty Girl, Lean In, The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Vanity Fair, Glamour, The Daily Mail, The New Zealand Herald and a host of others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on Kate T. Parker or her book, please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.katetparker.com\/\">www.katetparker.com<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 24, 2018 is now known as \u201cStrong is the New Pretty Day\u201d in Roswell. Mayor Lori Henry issued a proclamation recognizing this special day at the second regularly scheduled Mayor and Council Meeting this month.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cStrong is the New Pretty\u201d is an international bestseller by author, Roswell resident and mother of two girls, Kate T. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}