{"id":1942,"date":"2008-07-04T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:22","slug":"toon-thursday-of-course-im-not-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1942","title":{"rendered":"Toon Thursday: Of Course I&#8217;m Not Talking About Myself Here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/SG14Oc9SJAI\/AAAAAAAAAlg\/IdFymQtyXE0\/s1600-h\/Cartoon-WritingTips3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/Cartoon-WritingTips3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218959732879008770\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;m a little worried about this, but I think I&#8217;m going to have to post re-run Toon Thursdays for the next two weeks, because I&#8217;ll be out of town. I promise to pick truly awesome ones to re-post so that you don&#8217;t lose interest completely and leave me for another writing-related cartoon.<br \/>What will I be doing for two whole weeks? Well, next week I&#8217;ll be in Seattle for a friend&#8217;s wedding, which is next Saturday. However, I&#8217;m also very excited about getting together with <a href=\"http:\/\/saintsandspinners.blogspot.com\/\">Alkelda<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/interactivereader.blogspot.com\/\">Jackie<\/a> and possibly even <a href=\"http:\/\/chasingray.com\/\">Colleen<\/a> for an informal kidlit drink evening. And I promise, I won&#8217;t be shy about posting pictures. However, judging from <a href=\"http:\/\/saintsandspinners.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/in-which-tadmack-and-i-meet-for-coffee.html\">previous encounters<\/a>, Alkelda might have that covered! \ud83d\ude42<br \/>Just a couple of links today. I recently received an e-mail about a new site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookvote.net\/\">BookVote<\/a>, which is a social bookmarking site specifically geared towards sharing writing and book info. If you&#8217;re interested in sharing great links (and giving the thumbs-up or thumbs-down on others&#8217; shared links), it sounds like a great project.<br \/>In the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scbwi.org\">SCBWI e-mail newsletter<\/a>, I casually read an <a href=\"http:\/\/press.nationalgeographic.com\/pressroom\/index.jsp?pageID=pressReleases_detail&#038;siteID=1&#038;cid=1203698789748\">item<\/a> that referred to a fun little contest called the National Geographic Children&#8217;s Books Planetary Mnemonic Contest. Said the newsletter item, &#8220;National Geographic Children&#8217;s Books created the contest in response to the recent announcement by the scientific community that there are now 11 recognized planets &#8212; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Eris. Pluto, Ceres and Eris are considered dwarf planets.&#8221; Is it just me asking, &#8220;Ceres? Eris?? Duhhh, when did that happen?&#8221; Anyway, methinks it&#8217;s cool, though Eris seems a bit scary for a planetoid name&#8230;like it&#8217;s going to break orbit, cruise by, and drop apples of discord on us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little worried about this, but I think I&#8217;m going to have to post re-run Toon Thursdays for the next two weeks, because&#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":[2,15,77,10,73],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-toon-thursday","tag-views","tag-world-o-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","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=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4994,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/4994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}