{"id":735,"date":"2013-07-31T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:38:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:38:22","slug":"midweek-web-browse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Web Browse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only when I&#8217;m the most excited to start reading a book &#8211; I just got my copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=203695563\" target=\"_blank\">THE PANOPTICON, by Jenni Fagan<\/a> &#8211; that you get some weird thingy in your eye that means you have to take off your glasses and apply a heating pad. Nevertheless, in the few minutes I&#8217;ve spent online today, I&#8217;ve found&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;Robert Post&#8217;s child. No, seriously. These are Flora&#8217;s PEOPLE. You know <a href=\"http:\/\/natgeofound.tumblr.com\/post\/56975626592\/portrait-of-the-bell-family-and-friends-on-cape\" target=\"_blank\">someone in COLD COMFORT FARM wore that hat<\/a>. Every day.<br \/>\n&#8230;<b>the interviews on DiversifYA.<\/b> I love the identity questions that are asked; &#8220;what was it like, growing up X?&#8221; Answering the question of what it was like growing up Muslim, black, bisexual-heteronormative, Afro-Latina, with a mental illness or a physical disability, etc. &#8211; makes for some very interesting reading. Even better, this site provides a ton of new blogs and tweet feeds to check out, and new sites, including <b>Operation Diversity<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/whimsicallyours.com\/2013\/07\/18\/launching-operation-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\">coming soon to a blogosphere near you<\/a>, and the getting-to-be-well-known, ongoing blog <a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Disability In Kidlit<\/b><\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8230;my sense of humor, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.slj.com\/teacozy\/2013\/07\/31\/its-like-santa\/\" target=\"_blank\">squared.<\/a>. &#8220;SUCK IT UP! <i>This is your life now<\/i>,&#8221; is THE phrase of the week.<br \/>\n&#8230;<b>that Malorie Blackman continues<\/b> to be SUPER AWESOME. I mean, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/childrens-books-site\/interactive\/2013\/jul\/02\/doctor-who-ripple-effect-malorie-blackman-extract\" target=\"_blank\">SHE WROTE A DR. WHO STORY<\/a>. You cannot help but love someone who engages in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/childrens-books-site\/2013\/jul\/31\/malorie-blackman-doctor-who\" target=\"_blank\">fanfic without shame<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8230;and, from an Israeli bookstore chain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/29\/book-ads_n_3671131.html?ir=Books\" target=\"_blank\">The BEST Book Ads<\/a>, ever: (via HuffPo.)<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jz0HGUfNmiE\/UflX1BkySPI\/AAAAAAAAEHs\/uWJIA8MBVtQ\/s1600\/The+right+book....jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-jz0HGUfNmiE\/UflX1BkySPI\/AAAAAAAAEHs\/uWJIA8MBVtQ\/s320\/The+right+book....jpg\" width=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard from AF &#8211; she is hot, she looks adorable in her South Asian clothes, and is off to see never-before-met relatives. Keep a good thought for her, will you?<br \/>\nHave a glorious midweek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only when I&#8217;m the most excited to start reading a book &#8211; I just got my copy of THE PANOPTICON, by Jenni Fagan&#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":[15],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7654,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/7654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}