{"id":2148,"date":"2008-01-10T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:13","slug":"lets-think-of-something-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let&#8217;s Think Of Something To Do&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>&#8220;&#8230;While We&#8217;re Waiting.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Remember that song from Mr. Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood? Apparently the people during the writer&#8217;s strike have thought of something to do: write <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/10\/AR2008011001093.html\" target=_blank>children&#8217;s books<\/a>. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitaliblog.com\/2008\/01\/striking-writers-pen-kids-books.html\" target= _blank>Mitali&#8217;s Fire Escape<\/a>.) The article is titled, &#8220;Striking Writer&#8217;s Turn to Child&#8217;s Play.&#8221; Let me tell you something, Washington Post: the picture book writing: SO not child&#8217;s play. <\/p>\n<p>I expect a few goodies in the mix since the people who write <i>The Simpsons<\/i> and other long-running TV favorites are writing. Will this be a shot in the arm for children&#8217;s books, or a really annoying (semi-BACA-y) idea? Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;While We&#8217;re Waiting.&#8221; Remember that song from Mr. Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood? Apparently the people during the writer&#8217;s strike have thought of something to do: write&#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-2148","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\/2148","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=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4639,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}