{"id":657,"date":"2010-09-02T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2010-09-02T21:00:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T02:00:54","slug":"two-more-bits-of-nice-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/two-more-bits-of-nice-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Two More Bits of Nice News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discountednewspapers.com\/images\/Logos\/louisville-courier-journal-masthead-175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"69\" \/>News summary:\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">After a very fun run of it, my serialized story in the Louisville Courier-Journal, <em>Not That Girl<\/em>, has wrapped up its monthlong appearance. \u00a0You can read \u00a0You can read the series from start to finish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/notthatgirl1\">here<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.educatorsathome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/little_red_schoolhouse_zoom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"163\" \/>I was also thrilled to get this lovely review from Tweendom, which is run by the lower-school librarian at Little Red School House in\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">NYC. \u00a0(I did a little Internet sleuthing; it&#8217;s true. \u00a0The school looks almost n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">othing like that picture, by the way; although it is, in fact, little and red, it&#8217;s on the corner of very busy 6th Avenue. \u00a0That image was so gorgeously Maxfield Parrish, though, I couldn&#8217;t resist including it.) \u00a0Little Red was so much cooler than I was that I didn&#8217;t even know anybody who went there, but I can recoup some of that lost coolness now by having a nice mention on the librarian&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">review blog. \u00a0You can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/tweendom.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/nice-and-mean-by-jessica-leader.html\">here<\/a>, or just enjoy this part:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jessica Leader has gotten the multiple worlds of the middle schooler down pat. Seventh grade tends to be a time of big changes\u2026of kids figuring out who they want to be and where they are going to fit in. Marina and Sachi, while seemingly opposites, illustrate this beautifully. Round out the cast of their satellite friends and many types of kids are shown without seeming like Leader simply lined up types and put them in.\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nice and Mean<\/span> shows readers that most likely, the kids they think of as mean aren\u2019t all mean, and the kids who seem nice definitely have some back story of their own!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Off to the beach this weekend, and I desperately hope that Earl does not delay me! \u00a0I have kind of a horrible fear of flying,<\/p>\n<p>and if this flight is punctuated by turbulence, I don&#8217;t know what kind of state I&#8217;ll be in when I get off the plane. \u00a0If you want to<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">say a little prayer, I wouldn&#8217;t mind being included. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Happy Labor Day weekend! \u00a0May the fruits of your labor be recognized!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News summary:\u00a0After a very fun run of it, my serialized story in the Louisville Courier-Journal, Not That Girl, has wrapped up its monthlong appearance. \u00a0You can read \u00a0You can read the series from start to finish here. I was also thrilled to get this lovely review from Tweendom, which is run by the lower-school librarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,91,1],"tags":[123,87],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-niceandmean","category-not-that-girl","category-uncategorized","tag-not-that-girl","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}