{"id":835,"date":"2009-01-26T12:48:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/?p=835"},"modified":"2009-01-26T12:48:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:48:09","slug":"newbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2009\/01\/26\/newbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Newbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year again &#8212; the ALA announced their Newbery award winner today, along with a host of other prizes and honors.  For the first time in a while the book is one which has probably already sold well, from an author people have heard of: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman.<\/p>\n<p>Does this signal a change on the part of the committee to start selecting books that aren&#8217;t pretentious literary crap, as they so often do?  Probably not. If you look through the list of books, every 5 or 6 years there&#8217;ll be one that kids might actually pick up and read on their own.  So it doesn&#8217;t become a trend until they&#8217;ve picked several of these sorts of books in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year again &#8212; the ALA announced their Newbery award winner today, along with a host of other prizes and honors. For the first time in a while the book is one which has probably already sold well, from an author people have heard of: The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}