{"id":395,"date":"2015-05-28T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:42:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:42:59","slug":"lee-lows-diversity-in-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Lee &#038; Low&#8217;s Diversity in Publishing Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity is one of the issues we really care about at Finding Wonderland, and our eclectic reading list reflects that, we hope. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s thrilling to see publishers Lee &amp; Low really pushing the issue&#8211;not only promoting diversity in a basic, &#8220;diverse books are great!&#8221; kind of way, but urging publishers themselves to take a close look at who they&#8217;re hiring, to get at the root of the &#8220;diverse books don&#8217;t sell&#8221; pseudo-truism.<\/p>\n<p>So they&#8217;ve created their own diversity baseline survey for publishers, and they also created a petition on Change.org so that readers and other Concerned Citizens can add their voices to the clamor for more transparency in the publishing industry. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leeandlow.com\/2015\/05\/21\/why-were-asking-publishers-to-join-our-diversity-baseline-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the full post here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity is one of the issues we really care about at Finding Wonderland, and our eclectic reading list reflects that, we hope. That&#8217;s why&#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":[2,34,10],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-diversity","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8582,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}