{"id":438,"date":"2010-05-27T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T14:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2010-05-27T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T15:01:46","slug":"nice-and-mean-got-wowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/nice-and-mean-got-wowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice and Mean got WOWed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"wow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vickiesmith.com\/images\/Vickie%20Smith%20Say%20Wow%20Marketing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"181\" \/>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/blackteensread2.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/waiting-on-wednesday-nice-and-mean.html\">Reading in Color<\/a> for featuring <em>Nice and Mean<\/em> as a WoW (Waiting on Wednesday) pick!\u00a0 Reading in Color led the campaign against\u00a0the whitewashing of covers in the publishing industry.\u00a0 (Whitewashing: when a character of color is shown on the cover as being white so that white folks won&#8217;t get alienated and buy a different novel.\u00a0 Read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Readers-Against-WhiteWashing\/309034599987?v=wall&amp;ref=nf\">here<\/a>.)\u00a0 Ari, who runs the blog, astounds me for being so widely read in books new and classic, featuring original and vital memes like Male Monday and\u00a0Throwback\u00a0Thursday.\u00a0 It is truly an honor to be included as a WoW pick.\u00a0 Thank you, Ari!<\/p>\n<p>I might also add that, frankly, I am waiting, too&#8211;not On Wednesday, but On June 8, when <em>Nice and Mean<\/em> will finally be released.\u00a0 Into the wild!\u00a0 For readers to read!\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a 17-month-long wait.\u00a0 Let the lovin&#8217; begin!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, though, it sure is nice to see others are waiting excitedly along with me.\u00a0 Now, go to Reading in Color and check out some other books you should be reading!<\/p>\n<p>ps That is not me up there in the photo.\u00a0 It is some marketer in New York.\u00a0 I actually had to do two searches to find an image with &#8220;WOW,&#8221; because all the original results featured World of Warcraft!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Reading in Color for featuring Nice and Mean as a WoW (Waiting on Wednesday) pick!\u00a0 Reading in Color led the campaign against\u00a0the whitewashing of covers in the publishing industry.\u00a0 (Whitewashing: when a character of color is shown on the cover as being white so that white folks won&#8217;t get alienated and buy a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niceandmean","category-promotion-of-self-and-others","tag-wow-for-nice-and-mean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}