{"id":1246,"date":"2011-04-01T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:57","slug":"yeah-april-that-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, April. That Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-9fvLzQZtcFc\/TZXyn3Qz04I\/AAAAAAAACC8\/dFdYP5bX00c\/s1600\/YA%2BMafia%2BFinal.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/YAMafiaFinal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Normally, I hate April 1. I don&#8217;t consider myself particularly gullible, but I tend to take people at face-value, and this is the one day a year I have to be actually, you know, <i>careful<\/i>. I find that more annoying than amusing, but Out of the Box has managed today to make me smile. Check out the REST of the <a href=\"http:\/\/hboutofbox.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/april-horn-book-magazine-starred.html\" target= _blank>fine fiction that&#8217;s come into Horn Book Magazine today<\/a>. Apparently, this whole thing had something to do with Travis from <i>100 Scope Notes<\/i>. Can you tell??<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, on my LinkedIn, the &#8220;people you might know&#8221; has been expanded. J.R.R. Tolkien and Ernest Hemingway have finally updated their LinkedIn pages.<\/p>\n<p>::sigh::<br \/>You can&#8217;t find <a href=\"http:\/\/collectingchildrensbooks.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/charlie-sheen-lands-childrens-book-deal.html\" target=_blank><i>this book<\/i><\/a> at an independent bookstore near you, but don&#8217;t let it stop you from trying. I mean, everyone wants to read a Charlie Sheen children&#8217;s book, don&#8217;t they??<\/p>\n<p>Fine, fine. Here. Read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2011\/04\/the-shadow-war-of-the-night-dragons-book-one-the-dead-city-excerpt\" target= _blank>excerpt from John Scalzi&#8217;s new SF<\/a> book. The first sentence alone should make you feel &#8230;something. Possibly blue in the face&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I hate April 1. I don&#8217;t consider myself particularly gullible, but I tend to take people at face-value, and this is the one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6474,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/6474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}