{"id":1684,"date":"2009-01-23T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:35","slug":"odds-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"Odds &#038; Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bloghead_TG.gif\" alt=\"bloghead_TG.gif\"><\/div>\n<p>TIME IS RUNNING OUT! This is your last reminder as the days tick down: mental_floss is giving away <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.static.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/21960.html\">five $10,000 scholarships<\/a> for college. Enter to win by saying, in 750 words or less, why you should win your tuition. YOUR DEADLINE IS JANUARY 31st, so DON&#8217;T DELAY!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is good news or not &#8212; but news it is. Alloy Entertainment, the book packaging company that came up with the idea for <i>The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants<\/i> and the <i>Gossip Girls<\/i> series is now accepting &#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6631298.html\" target= _blank>YA manuscripts<\/a>. Generally, all of their ideas come from in-house sources, but now they&#8217;re looking for fresh ideas&#8230; possibly those not centering on a.) a group of girls b.) who are all having romances, journeys, and dramas. Good luck, writers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the 250th Birthday of Robert Burns this weekend! <a href=\"http:\/\/savivi.deviantart.com\/art\/Regency-Hero-Dress-Up-Doll-101669291\" target= _blank>dress up your Burns dolly<\/a> and read a poem of his! Then eat some &#8230;sausages, if you can&#8217;t stomach the idea of haggis, and raise a glass for THE most famous Scottish poet, whose humble beginnings, various carryings-on with women other than his wife, and razor-tongued political commentary still managed to leave him Scotland&#8217;s favorite son all these years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIME IS RUNNING OUT! This is your last reminder as the days tick down: mental_floss is giving away five $10,000 scholarships for college. Enter&#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":[15,10],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","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=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5443,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/5443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}