{"id":1514,"date":"2009-10-13T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:31:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:31:42","slug":"amtrak-cybils-and-twilove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak, Cybils, and TwiLove&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/4000930614\/\" title=\"19-09-09_1047\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2468\/4000930614_95ab431b0e_m.jpg\" title=\"19-09-09_1047\" alt=\"19-09-09_1047\" align=\"left\" height=\"240\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"162\" \/><\/a>I saw this at the library the other day, and after I stopped laughing, I snapped a pic. Sometimes&#8230; seriously&#8230; this is a lot like train travel. The Death Bringers&#8230; death by benumbed buns.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of travel, Aquafortis is safe and sound in Italy, and would be waving hello if she could. (Yeah, right. Italy&#8230; blogging. Hmm. Which wins?) Meanwhile, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wandsandworlds.com\/cybils\/nominate.php\" target= _blank>two days left before Cybils nominations close<\/a>, the Science Fiction and Fantasy nominations are up to 121! It&#8217;s going to be a really exciting and hard trek to get all of those books winnowed out to the top ten in YA and MG. We&#8217;re all looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>Remember Problem Novels? Publishers these days don&#8217;t want to touch them with a ten-foot pole, but not everyone hates them. Back in the day, they were the stuff of which ABC After School Specials were made. They informed generations, and shaped what they thought of teen pregnancy, STDs, and all those other things your parents wanted you to sit down and watch TV about, instead of discussing with them. What&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/coloronline.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/cora-diversity-roll-call-problem-novel.html\" target=\"_blank\">your favorite?<\/a> CORA wants to know.<\/p>\n<p>A work in progress, now for your listening and viewing pleasure: it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twilightthemusical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twilight: The Musical<\/a>. It&#8217;s&#8230; painful. So, so, painful&#8230; and yet, a labor of love, and bad wigs&#8230; You know you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6A1PZZJdSn0\" target= _blank>want to watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this at the library the other day, and after I stopped laughing, I snapped a pic. Sometimes&#8230; seriously&#8230; this is a lot&#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-1514","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\/1514","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=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5794,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}