{"id":2141,"date":"2008-01-14T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:14","slug":"okay-okay-after-this-i-really-am-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2141","title":{"rendered":"Okay, okay, after this, I really am going to lie down&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of news bytes that stood out to me:<br \/>&#8230;18-year-old Cassandra Carter, who rose to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2007\/12\/at_18_shes_a_published_harlequ.html\" target= _blank>fame at 14 as a young author<\/a> is putting off college to write a sequel to her first novel, in time for her second to be published. Ironically, the sequel is called <i>Fast Life<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>The second piece of news that stuck out to me is that Disney has crossed into a new market by marketing<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080114\/ap_en_ot\/disney_indian_story_books\" target= _blank> Disney tales  like Aladdin, The Jungle Book and Winnie the Pooh<\/a> Hindi, Marathi and Malayalam. I guess that&#8217;s a great idea, but I&#8217;m more inclined to wonder why Disney doesn&#8217;t find Indian stories to publish and market. But that&#8217;s just me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of news bytes that stood out to me:&#8230;18-year-old Cassandra Carter, who rose to fame at 14 as a young author is putting&#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-2141","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\/2141","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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}