{"id":2170,"date":"2007-12-28T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:08","slug":"ypulse-and-teen-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2170","title":{"rendered":"Ypulse and Teen Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the novels which you feel accurately portray teen pregnancy? Ali at Ypulse, <a href=\"http:\/\/ypulse.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/pregsploitation.php\" target= _blank>citing a recent string of popular films<\/a> such as &#8220;Knocked Up&#8221; and &#8220;Waitress&#8221; in which an unplanned pregnancy occurs, is a little miffed that the &#8220;cool factor&#8221; seems to come into play. <\/p>\n<p>The cool factor is that ineffable movie-shtick which crops us in blockbuster films which makes everything okay. As in, Ooh, I had everything going for me, and I was a hockey player, but an injury meant I had to go out for pairs ice dancing and meet an annoying but beautiful girl who piqued me into vicious fights with her &#8212; until we inexplicably fell in love. It was The Cool Factor!&#8221; Or, as Ali amusingly puts it, <i>&#8220;I had everything going for me, and oops I accidentally slept with an annoying stoner. Hey, with a good soundtrack anything can work.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yes? No? Is dealing with teen pregnancy too &#8220;after-school special&#8221; to matter anymore? Especially those of you reading YA for Cybils &#8212; wha&#8217;ts out there? Is it all neatly and easily dealt with? What titles accurately reflect reality? Or is the reality that bad? <a href=\"http:\/\/ypulse.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/pregsploitation.php\" target= _blank>Join the conversation<\/a> at Ypulse.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bloomsbury publishing is concentrating on international book rights to <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/harrypotter\/story\/0,,2232783,00.html?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=10\" target= _blank>find life after Harry Potter<\/a> for their company. At least they&#8217;re not going around saying they&#8217;re looking for the next J.K. Rowling. How sick I am of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the novels which you feel accurately portray teen pregnancy? Ali at Ypulse, citing a recent string of popular films such as &#8220;Knocked&#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-2170","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\/2170","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=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}