{"id":2236,"date":"2007-11-15T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:53","slug":"whoooooooo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"Whoooooooo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 520px; height: 346px;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/NationalBOokAward.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/15\/us\/15books.html?ex=1352869200&amp;en=1e9e8b89b22c224d&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\" target=\"_blank\">HE WON!<\/a> HE WON, HE WON, HE WON!!!!! And <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/books\/339737_bookawards15.html\" target=\"_blank\">didn&#8217;t he look CUTE in his suit!??<\/a> And in answer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/i_was_hoping_for_this_one.html\" target=\"_blank\">to your question at Chasing Ray<\/a> &#8211; we feel ENORMOUSLY lucky, blessed and privileged to have interviewed a National Book Award for Young People&#8217;s Literature winner &#8212; again. This is #2 for us &#8212; joining our SBBT interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/summer-blog-blast-tour-kick-off-gene.html\" target= _blank>Gene Luen Yang!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were SO crossing our fingers for this brilliant and funny and talented man &#8212; and this fabulous book, described to him by one teen as &#8220;the <i>Catcher in the Rye<\/i> for minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Mr. Alexie,<br \/>Your fans A.F. and TadMack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HE WON! HE WON, HE WON, HE WON!!!!! And didn&#8217;t he look CUTE in his suit!?? And in answer to your question at Chasing&#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":[47,18,10],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ethnicity-and-ya-literature","tag-happenings","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","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=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4514,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}