{"id":4633,"date":"2016-05-16T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2016-05-16T10:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T14:43:43","slug":"chatting-blondie-brit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/chatting-blondie-brit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chatting with Blondie and the Brit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlondietheBrit.png\" alt=\"Blondie&amp;theBrit\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlondietheBrit.png 574w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlondietheBrit-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlondietheBrit-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlondietheBrit-450x450.png 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlondietheBrit-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlondietheBrit-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>From my toy store roots to my wish for a secret superpower, the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/blondieandbrit.podbean.com\/e\/caragh-obrien-episode-35-you-cant-help-dreaming\/?token=6d688625ea84fa032c204619aea49393\" target=\"_blank\">Blondie &amp; the Brit Podcast<\/a> covers how and why I arrived where I am today: on the couch, writing YA novels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kjwaters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">K.J. Waters<\/a> (Blondie) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannekelmanauthor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Suzanne Kelman<\/a> (the Brit) were so warm and welcoming that I couldn\u2019t help opening up to them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4634\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4634\" class=\"wp-image-4634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ThePiedPiper.jpeg\" alt=\"ThePiedPiper\" width=\"150\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ThePiedPiper.jpeg 265w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ThePiedPiper-250x321.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Throughout my girlhood, my creative, playful parents owned the Pied Piper Toy Store.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They\u2019re the ones with superpowers, if you ask me. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Writers themselves, K.J. (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kjwaters.com\/#!stealing-time\/cnec\" target=\"_blank\">Stealing Time<\/a><\/em>) and Suzanne (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rejected-Writers-Book-Club-Southlea-ebook\/dp\/B016A31ZX6?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=geolinker-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Rejected Writers Book Club<\/a><\/em>), are great friends who celebrate writing and different perspectives on publishing in their series of podcast interviews with writers. \u00a0Plus, they&#8217;re funny.<\/p>\n<p>For a listen, <a href=\"http:\/\/blondieandbrit.podbean.com\/e\/caragh-obrien-episode-35-you-cant-help-dreaming\/?token=6d688625ea84fa032c204619aea49393\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my toy store roots to my wish for a secret superpower, the latest Blondie &amp; the Brit Podcast covers how and why I arrived where I am today: on the couch, writing YA novels. K.J. Waters (Blondie) and Suzanne Kelman (the Brit) were so warm and welcoming that I couldn\u2019t help opening up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[812],"class_list":["post-4633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-blondie-the-brit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633","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=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4641,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions\/4641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}