{"id":1358,"date":"2011-11-07T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:49:14","slug":"ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/prized\/ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1359\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1359\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1359\" title=\"PosterGirl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PosterGirl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"215\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomorrow PRIZED comes out<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I loved school when I was a kid, but even so, I had a gnawing belly every single day when my dad drove me to school.\u00a0 The Convent of the Visitation School had a long driveway that sloped steadily downward, so I could see the building growing larger over the dashboard as we approached. The gnawing increased as we veered right around the playground fence toward the big doors of the Montessori Level II wing.\u00a0 I\u2019d have my bookbag, my shoe bag, and some project or other so my hands were too full for the door handle, so my dad would reach across me to push the door open.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t say good-bye.\u00a0 He\u2019d say, \u201cSock it to \u2018em!\u201d and in I\u2019d go.<\/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, the <em>Prized<\/em> blog tour takes me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamingthebookshelf.com\/2011\/11\/prized-blog-tour-author-interview-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">Taming the Bookshelf<\/a>, where among other things, Tara asks me about my e-short story, \u201cTortured,\u201d which will be out in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved school when I was a kid, but even so, I had a gnawing belly every single day when my dad drove me to school.\u00a0 The Convent of the Visitation School had a long driveway that sloped steadily downward, so I could see the building growing larger over the dashboard as we approached. The [&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-1358","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\/1358","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=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}