{"id":1967,"date":"2008-05-30T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:29:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:29:14","slug":"psst-another-stolen-momen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1967","title":{"rendered":"Psst. Another stolen moment&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to say, &#8220;Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/bottomshelfbooks.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/rate-of-production-slowing.html\" target= _blank>Minh&#8217;s really cool<\/a> save the date&#8217; invites.&#8221; He&#8217;s allegedly helping with his <a href=\"http:\/\/practicalwedding.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/diy-guilt.html\" target= _blank> DIY wedding<\/a>, thus excusing himself for not blogging. Like we believe THAT.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/15202\" target= _blank>the mental_floss blog<\/a>, is there a YA novel character in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/article.html?in_article_id=149540&#038;in_page_id=2\" target= _blank>this kid&#8217;s sleeping habits<\/a>, or what?! <\/p>\n<p>Mal Peet talks books <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,,2283111,00.html?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=10\" target= _blank>at the Hay Festival<\/a>, and says he cribs from Emily Dickinson. Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Man, I wish I were fourteen! The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.readergirlz.com\/\">readergirlz<\/a> have passed on the news of an awesome writing opportunity for kids aged 14-19, thanks to HarperTeen. Aspiring writers can submit a story between 5,000 and 10,000 words (12 pt font, double spaced, one inch margins) to win a chance to be included in an anthology. Download the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/webcontent.harpercollins.com\/images\/om\/sz\/PDFS\/Up%20All%20Night%20%20Entry_Rules.pdf\">official entry form<\/a> (which is a .pdf file) and be sure your entry is postmarked by October 1st and received no later than October 7th to be included. When&#8217;s the last time you were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harperteen.com\/global_scripts\/product_catalog\/book_xml.asp?isbn=0061370762\">UP ALL NIGHT?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>All right. Back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to say, &#8220;Check out Minh&#8217;s really cool save the date&#8217; invites.&#8221; He&#8217;s allegedly helping with his DIY wedding, thus excusing himself for not blogging&#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-1967","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\/1967","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=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}