{"id":347,"date":"2015-10-08T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:43:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:43:19","slug":"anticipating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;Anticipating"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"ttp:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-QPhxiCLL800\/VhZ5BF5n3yI\/AAAAAAAAFoM\/bTE9YGUxTIM\/s1600\/23846071.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/23846071.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Toymaker&#8217;s Apprentice!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;which just arrived at my house via late UPS delivery. Thank you after 6 p.m. people!<br \/>\nHonestly? I&#8217;m not a huge fan of the whole Nutcracker thing&#8230; in part because (Shhhh!) I&#8217;ve never seen the ballet. I also don&#8217;t really like ballet, as its history is steeped in&#8230; *cough* upper class Eurocentric elitism and all that sort of thing. I know, I know, that is its <i>history<\/i> and a lot in the field is changing, thanks to some amazing folks, and doors finally squeaking open a crack for people of color, but that&#8217;s where I come from. Though I longed for the yearly traditions wealthier families shared when I was a kid, when I got older, I realized I wasn&#8217;t interested anyway. HOWEVER. Despite the fact that this story is a re-imagining of the Nutcracker tale, I adore Sherri L. Smith writing ANYTHING and will read it all, forever. Also, there is so much that is completely BIZARRO about the whole Nutcracker schtick anyway. What is with the rat with all the heads? Why are inanimate Christmas decorations moving, anyway? How is such an allegedly happy holiday filled with so much vague menace? Whose fault is it? I suspect this book may have The Answers. Or, at least be really, really beautifully illustrated, have a fab cover typeface, and entertain me in some other fashion entirely. Looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toymaker&#8217;s Apprentice! &#8230;which just arrived at my house via late UPS delivery. Thank you after 6 p.m. people! Honestly? I&#8217;m not a huge&#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":[12,67],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-tsd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}