{"id":2627,"date":"2007-02-21T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:08","slug":"preppy-is-new-goth-yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2627","title":{"rendered":"Preppy is the New Goth: Yikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&#038;isbn=9781416524748\" target=\"_blank\">Oh My Goth<\/a> is a fast-paced, funny novel that I picked up simply because of the title. It was a quick, amusing read that turned out to be thought-provoking and surprising.<br \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thebestreviews.com\/images\/covers\/1416524746.jpeg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>Persecuted high school student Jade Leigh is tired of people looking at her and simply judging her by her clothing\/makeup\/dyed hair\/nose rings. It kind of sucks to be her, but she&#8217;s okay with that &#8212; I mean, in so far as she&#8217;s okay with anything. She has her individuality, and she has friends, and that makes everything better. Only her teacher and the principal have got it OUT for her. They get her dad to agree to send her on this &#8220;field trip,&#8221; which involves needles and gurneys. And then &#8211; whoa! She wakes up the next morning and it&#8217;s all changed. The world, I mean.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s a goth. Now Jade&#8217;s not so much an individual as much as she is suddenly the Queen of the Night.<\/p>\n<p>Something is just not <i>right!<\/i> Is she <i>really<\/i> going to have to cooperate with the formerly perky-preppy cheerleader Mercedes to get out of this reality? The cute new guy, Clarik, seems like he might be her ticket into a new reality altogether&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh My Goth is a fast-paced, funny novel that I picked up simply because of the title. It was a quick, amusing read that&#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":[12,43,5],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-girls-fiction","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","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=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3914,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}