{"id":1660,"date":"2009-02-24T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:44","slug":"february-24-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"February 24, 2005&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/SXiCJfCSVQI\/AAAAAAAABUE\/zGfokDgp-8Y\/s1600-h\/fabulous!.png\" target=_blank title=\"FOUR YEARS OLD\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/fabulous.png\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>&#8230;was the go-live day for WritingYA. We knew exactly &#8230;four people, thought our blog would only be read by our writing group, and most of our sidebar links were to author blogs &#8212; people we admired but with whom we had never conversed.<\/p>\n<p>And four years later, we&#8217;ve discovered a vast network of interested, interesting, creative people  &#8212; authors, librarians, booksellers, readers, teachers &#8212; people who like us (we assume) and who are like us in so many ways. Our focus has expanded to include interests we&#8217;d never considered, and we&#8217;ve grown smarter and better because of it. Though things have changed, we&#8217;re glad the kidlitosphere is part of our circle of friends. <\/p>\n<p>Cheers to us! And cheers to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;was the go-live day for WritingYA. We knew exactly &#8230;four people, thought our blog would only be read by our writing group, and most&#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":[10,17],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views","tag-who-we-are"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","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=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5492,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/5492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}