{"id":1718,"date":"2008-12-19T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:28","slug":"toon-thursday-revision-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"Toon Thursday: Revision Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/SUsT2hQ4ZfI\/AAAAAAAABTY\/9Ja2GfDNc5k\/s1600-h\/Cartoon-DayInLife5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 329px;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Cartoon-DayInLife5.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281336815385077234\" \/><\/a><br \/>&#8216;K, I&#8217;m done harping on revision now. Maybe. For the time being.<\/p>\n<p>NE ways (jeez, it felt wrong just <i>typing<\/i> that), I wanted to give props to Mother Reader today for her even-handed take on the latest installment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/2008\/12\/newbery-schmewbery.html\">the annually recurring Newbery debate<\/a>, and her excellent hat tip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\">Cybils<\/a>. The article prompting all the hoo-hah originally appeared in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6600688.html?q=silvey+newbery+award\">School Library Journal<\/a>, but some fresh hoo-hah has been stirred up (do you stir up hoo-hah? perhaps fling it?) by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/15\/AR2008121503293.html\">Washington Post<\/a>, and it&#8217;s even made it all the way into the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2008\/dec\/19\/newbery-medal-children-elitism\">Guardian Books Blog<\/a> (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolagriffith.com\/\">Nicola<\/a> for the link).<\/p>\n<p>But what I found most interesting about the Guardian article was a little aside at the very end about one of the books <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/article3599732.ece\">shortlisted for WH Smith Children&#8217;s Book of the Year<\/a>. All I can say is, yikes. Then again, perhaps this is where I&#8217;m going wrong. Perhaps the path to publication lies in the inclusion of ponies, and my as-yet-unpublished status is entirely due to my failure to include enough ponies in my books. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;K, I&#8217;m done harping on revision now. Maybe. For the time being. NE ways (jeez, it felt wrong just typing that), I wanted to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,60,15,77,10,52],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-book-news","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-toon-thursday","tag-views","tag-writing-daze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}