{"id":10869,"date":"2023-03-31T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/oom-recipients\/lynn-b-johnston\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:19:53","slug":"lynn-b-johnston","status":"publish","type":"oom-recipients","link":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/oom-recipients\/lynn-b-johnston\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynn B. Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Lynn Lake resident Lynn Johnston has been entertaining and educating newspaper readers in 23 countries for more than 25 years with her For Better or Worse comic strip detailing stories of the fictional \u2018Pattersons\u2019 based on her own family. Syndicated in more than 2,000 papers reaching a potential 220 million readers every day, it is proudly Canadian and extremely sensitive to social and cultural concerns. Recent story lines have included student teaching in a northern community and visits to relatives in rural Manitoba. Johnston was the first female and first Canadian winner of the Reuben Award and was honoured as Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonist Society in the United States, which also recognized her work in 1992 as the Best Syndicated Comic Strip. She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1991 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-10869","oom-recipients","type-oom-recipients","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients\/10869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oom-recipients"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oom-recipients"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitobalg.ca\/fr-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}