{"id":4590,"date":"2016-04-21T20:57:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2016-04-21T20:57:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:57:54","slug":"howdy-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/howdy-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Howdy, Texas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As easily as I say \u201cPass the butter,\u201d teens in Texas say \u201cMa\u2019am\u201d and \u201cSir,\u201d and to my Northern ears, it\u2019s a gracious sound. When I write about characters from Texas, I recall the kind, polite readers I\u2019ve met there, and when I think about going back, I smile.<\/p>\n

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Texas<\/p><\/div>\n

In the YA community, Texas is known for its book enthusiasm. The librarians (Yay for the TAYSHAS Reading Lists!<\/a>), booksellers, bloggers, teachers, local writers (Yay for Jennifer Mathieu<\/a>!), and readers are fun loving and first rate. There\u2019s no question, then, that the North Texas Teen Book Festival<\/a> this upcoming Saturday is bound to be great!<\/p>\n

I get to go! Wahoo! The festival is all about readers who love Middle Grade (MG) and Young Adult (YA) books, so I\u2019m super excited. I\u2019m on four different panels with other amazing writers<\/a> throughout the day. If you happen to be going to the festival, too, please say hi! I\u2019m always happy to chat, and I love meeting fellow readers and writers in person. We can talk books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As easily as I say \u201cPass the butter,\u201d teens in Texas say \u201cMa\u2019am\u201d and \u201cSir,\u201d and to my Northern ears, it\u2019s a gracious sound. When I write about characters from Texas, I recall the kind, polite readers I\u2019ve met there, and when I think about going back, I smile. In the YA community, Texas is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590","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=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4600,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}