{"id":1379,"date":"2010-08-03T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:01","slug":"theyre-just-asking-to-be-eaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1379","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re Just Asking To Be Eaten."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Because the bottom line is this: the book empowers women yes, but ONLY certain types of girls, not all of them. And I am sick and tired of books that associate girls that are self-confident and beautiful with being shallow and superficial and deserving of bad things happening to them. SICK AND TIRED.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoa. Not all is well in fairytale retelling land, which is a big fat massive disappointment. <a href=\"http:\/\/thebooksmugglers.com\/2010\/07\/book-discussion-why-we-didnt-like-sisters-red-by-jackson-pearce.html\" target= _blank>The Book Smuggler&#8217;s<\/a> are reviewing Jackson Pearce&#8217;s <i>Sisters Red<\/i>. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to Trisha at the <a href=\"http:\/\/theyayayas.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/02\/and-on-a-lighter-note\/\" target= _blank>YAYAYA&#8217;s<\/a> (who is seriously jonesing for the next book in the Chaos Walking series. I feel like a book dealer, since *I* have it, and it&#8217;s not out in the U.S. yet. [Nyah-nyah.] Since I&#8217;m currently on a writing jag, I haven&#8217;t yet read it &#8211; and in solidarity, perhaps I&#8217;ll wait &#8217;til September. Perhaps).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Because the bottom line is this: the book empowers women yes, but ONLY certain types of girls, not all of them. And I am&#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":[42,58,10],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class-and-identity-in-ya-literature","tag-sisters","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","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=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}