{"id":1351,"date":"2011-11-06T09:42:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T14:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2011-11-06T09:42:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T14:42:16","slug":"smart-girls-pretty-girls-slender-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/prized\/smart-girls-pretty-girls-slender-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Girls. Pretty Girls. Slender Girls."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1353\" title=\"SlenderGirls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/SlenderGirls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"240\" \/>Why did I give Gaia a scarred face?\u00a0 Much as I would like to say my book is not about beauty, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a girl alive in America today who can get away from the issue of beauty.\u00a0 Not for more than five minutes.\u00a0 I played volleyball poorly as a high school student, and one of my friends took a grainy, black-and-white photo of me in action.\u00a0 At the time I thought, <em>oh, I look fat in that picture<\/em>.\u00a0 When I saw the same photo years later, I saw a fit, healthy, slender girl.\u00a0 Why was I visually impaired as a teenager?<\/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\" \/>In <em>The Birthmarked Trilogy<\/em>, Gaia starts out thinking she\u2019s ugly.\u00a0 It shapes her expectations of every new interaction she has.\u00a0 I wish I could convince Gaia she\u2019s beautiful in every way that matters. \u00a0I wish I could convince my girl readers they\u2019re smart, confident, capable, giving, and strong.<\/p>\n<p>Today the <em>Prized<\/em> blog tour takes me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karinsbooknook.com\/2011\/11\/06\/q-a-with-caragh-obrien-author-of-birthmarked-and-prized\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karin\u2019s Book Nook<\/a> for a few more questions, like how I felt when I first heard my book sold.\u00a0 That was a happy day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did I give Gaia a scarred face?\u00a0 Much as I would like to say my book is not about beauty, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a girl alive in America today who can get away from the issue of beauty.\u00a0 Not for more than five minutes.\u00a0 I played volleyball poorly as a high school student, [&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":[17],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prized","tag-prized-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","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=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}