{"id":1676,"date":"2009-01-29T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:40","slug":"coming-soon-to-blog-near-you-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon to a Blog Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/SYIUIYdtwBI\/AAAAAAAABVA\/rt6iFuV_1v8\/s1600-h\/stinglarge.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"click to enlarge in new window\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/stinglarge.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>&#8211;from her New Year&#8217;s &#8220;looking forward to&#8221; chat at <i><a href=\"http:\/\/slayground.livejournal.com\/462294.html\" target= _blank>Bildungsroman<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I am a geek. A science fiction nerd. A fantasy dork. I spent the day after Christmas watching all three Lord of the Rings movies with four guys, a couple of hot dogs, a mug of tea, and a light-up replica of Frodo&#8217;s sword, Sting. (Wow, that sounds too geeky, even for me.) I have dressed like Uhura (once, for Halloween &#8212; I&#8217;m not that nerdy). And now I am writing science-effing-fiction! Well, my version of it anyway. It will still be a coming-of-age story; it will still be about the people. There are no spaceships, no laser beams, no alien hordes. No fairies. But it will be new. A new what-if. How am I supposed to get any sleep when I could be writing that?&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> YES! Rampant Geekatude!!!<\/p>\n<p>Is it any WONDER that we&#8217;re excited about <a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/guest-blogger-sherri-l-smith.html\" target= _blank>our second visit<\/a> with author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherrilsmith.com\/\" target= _blank>Sherri L. Smith<\/a>? On  <b>February 2<\/b>, we&#8217;ll be chatting about her new book, <i>Flygirl<\/i>, about ethnicity, race, and who we really are.<\/p>\n<p>You are SO invited to join the conversation. Bring your coffee (we&#8217;ll be wide awake), your chatter, and the truth about your identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211;from her New Year&#8217;s &#8220;looking forward to&#8221; chat at Bildungsroman &#8220;I am a geek. A science fiction nerd. A fantasy dork. I spent the&#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":[65,15,10],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-interviews","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","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=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5460,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}