{"id":930,"date":"2012-09-04T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:36:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:36:05","slug":"be-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Be Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some quick links to things you should be reading this week:<br \/>\n**Children&#8217;s Book Council has started up a new discussion on <i>IT&#8217;S COMPLICATED<\/i> &#8211; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbcdiversity.com\/2012\/08\/creating-book-covers-as-both-mirror-and.html\" target= _blank>here&#8217;s yesterday&#8217;s<\/a> piece, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbcdiversity.com\/2012\/09\/changing-conversation-around-diverse.html\" target= _blank>today&#8217;s<\/a>. They&#8217;re covering covers.<\/p>\n<p>**Ursula Vernon, winner of a Hugo for graphic DIGGER, has managed to elbow Neil Gaiman in the chest and bury him in guacamole, in a quest for free nachos. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redwombatstudio.com\/blog\/?p=5222\" target= _blank>This is the lie they&#8217;ve agreed upon<\/a>, anyway. Congratulations to all the Hugo peeps, but it still makes us happy that a spotlight has been shined on a middle-grade book!<\/p>\n<p>**Gwenda Bond did a nice write-up over at John Scalzi&#8217;s &#8220;Whatever&#8221; blog. She discusses<a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2012\/09\/04\/the-big-idea-gwenda-bond\/\" target= _blank>The Big Idea<\/a> behind her tale of Roanoke Island.<\/p>\n<p>I have twelve friends who are born this month, so must race out and buy yet another card. Happy September thus far!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some quick links to things you should be reading this week: **Children&#8217;s Book Council has started up a new discussion on IT&#8217;S&#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":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7228,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/7228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}