{"id":1332,"date":"2011-11-03T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2011-11-03T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:03:54","slug":"real-life-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/prized\/real-life-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-Life Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1333\" title=\"Widji_3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Widji_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"227\" \/>J-stroke.\u00a0 C-stroke.\u00a0 Muskeg.\u00a0 Some things we know by learning them first-hand, or first-foot as the case may be.\u00a0 The characters in <em>Prized<\/em> are deft canoers, and to write the water scenes, I drew from my paddling experiences in the BWCA, the Quetico, and the Lake Nipigon area in Canada.\u00a0 Generations of cousins in my clan have attended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ymcatwincities.org\/camps\/camp_widjiwagan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Widjiwagan<\/a>, where as teens we go for weeks on trail in remote wilderness.\u00a0 It does something to you.\u00a0 You never forget.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1233\" title=\"Prized-Button-Tiny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Prized-Button-Tiny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"74\" \/>Today, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinasbookreviews.com\/2011\/11\/blog-tour-prized-chatting-with-caragh-m.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tina\u2019s Book Reviews<\/a>, Tina asks me about the research I did for <em>Prized<\/em>, and of course, real-life experience counts as the best kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J-stroke.\u00a0 C-stroke.\u00a0 Muskeg.\u00a0 Some things we know by learning them first-hand, or first-foot as the case may be.\u00a0 The characters in Prized are deft canoers, and to write the water scenes, I drew from my paddling experiences in the BWCA, the Quetico, and the Lake Nipigon area in Canada.\u00a0 Generations of cousins in my clan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}