{"id":2316,"date":"2007-10-04T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:33","slug":"roll-on-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2316","title":{"rendered":"Roll On, October"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=center><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/RwSywIf77_I\/AAAAAAAAAQs\/sGTaOQvAJ_k\/s1600-h\/October_country_day.png\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bradbury Season - HUGELY BIG!\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/October_country_day.png\" align=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raybradbury.com\/books\/octobercountry.html\" target=\"_blank\">The October Country<\/a><\/i> is a 1955 collection of twenty macabre short stories by suspense writer Ray Bradbury While not everyone in the kidlitosphere is a fan of the spooky, we are in favor of brilliant writing, and we salute Bradbury&#8217;s genius in writing stories that catch readers off-guard, keeping them guessing &#8212; and thinking.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Around the kidlitosphere today, there will be tons of stories celebrating the shivers this time of year brings. Throughout the day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/a_celebration_of_ray_bradbury.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chasing Ray<\/a> will have the full list of what&#8217;s going on. From the first cold finger of frost to the last dying leaf, October Country celebrates the turn of the seasons, the unexplained, the unexpected, the unexplored &#8212; the undiscovered country. Fasten your seat belts &#8212; this ride has dark, sharp corners and steep drops.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Awesome photo credit: Fabrice Coffrini, AP Photo\/Keystone<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The October Country is a 1955 collection of twenty macabre short stories by suspense writer Ray Bradbury While not everyone in the kidlitosphere is&#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":[18,10],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happenings","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","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=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}