{"id":969,"date":"2008-01-15T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/the-rita-award.html"},"modified":"2008-01-15T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T11:05:00","slug":"rita-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/rita-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rita Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/R4yTrDLI3rI\/AAAAAAAAAvk\/DrzqfrSyCOs\/s1600-h\/rita_award.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/R4yTrDLI3rI\/AAAAAAAAAvk\/DrzqfrSyCOs\/s400\/rita_award.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155658041228058290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a large Fed Ex box sitting outside my door when I returned home from work yesterday. It was addressed to me, so I opened it and found the pile of books to judge for the RWA&#8217;s annual RITA award contest. I&#8217;d forgotten that I&#8217;d signed up to judge this contest. A lot of the titles are inspirational. I think I have a total of eight books to read.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d better get started if I want to have them read by the deadline! In order to get finished in time, I&#8217;ll need to put the novels Flabbergasted, The Whitney Chronicles, and the Brandilyn Collins book aside to finish later.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">Cecelia Dowdy<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a large Fed Ex box sitting outside my door when I returned home from work yesterday. It was addressed to me, so I opened it and found the pile of books to judge for the RWA&#8217;s annual RITA award contest. I&#8217;d forgotten that I&#8217;d signed up to judge this contest. A lot of [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-fD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}