{"id":2122,"date":"2008-01-31T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:19","slug":"more-ala-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2122","title":{"rendered":"More ALA Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just had to spread the word (which I received as a link from Liz B. of <a href=\"http:\/\/yzocaet.blogspot.com\/\">A Chair, A Fireplace &#038; A Tea Cozy<\/a>)&#8211;this November 7-9, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/yalsa\/\">YALSA<\/a> presents the first-ever biennial Young Adult Literature Symposium in Nashville, Tennessee. Very cool! The theme is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/yalsa\/yalitsymposium\/slate.cfm\">&#8220;How We Read Now&#8221;<\/a>, and according to the website,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The symposium will begin with a preconference focusing on illustrated materials for teens, including comic books, graphic novels, graphic nonfiction, manga and anime. Programs at the symposium will showcase a wide variety of topics within young adult literature and librarianship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was excited to see a couple of familiar names from the blogosphere on the list of presentations&#8211;&#8220;Explaining and Exploring Fandom, Fan Life, and Participatory Culture&#8221; with <a href=\"http:\/\/yzocaet.blogspot.com\/\">Liz B<\/a>, and &#8220;Books between Cultures&#8221; with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitaliblog.com\/\">Mitali Perkins<\/a>. Congrats to both!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had to spread the word (which I received as a link from Liz B. of A Chair, A Fireplace &#038; A Tea&#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":[2,18,10],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-happenings","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","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=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}