{"id":3096,"date":"2006-02-01T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:17","slug":"future-of-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3096","title":{"rendered":"The Future of YA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty soon you might not even have to take out your earbuds to enjoy great YA lit&#8211;according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5182721\">this NPR segment<\/a> I heard today, the popularity of amateur audiobooks is exploding. Volunteers and fans, instead of professionals, are recording their voices for web downloads and podcasts. Some, like <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\/\">LibriVox<\/a>, aim to record and make available books in the public domain, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podiobooks.com\/\">PodioBooks<\/a> provides serialized podcasts of original books&#8211;including Young Adult. LibriVox is looking for volunteers, if you&#8217;d rather participate than absorb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty soon you might not even have to take out your earbuds to enjoy great YA lit&#8211;according to this NPR segment I heard today,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,10],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}