{"id":475881,"date":"2010-03-26T14:18:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurtisscaletta.com\/home\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2010-03-26T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:18:56","slug":"three-links-for-a-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/475881","title":{"rendered":"Three Links for a Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The round-robin interview with baseball authors\u00a0continues at <a href=\"http:\/\/thehappynappybookseller.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/9-authors-12-baseball-questions_25.html\">The Happy Nappy Bookseller<\/a>&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p>In my efforts to keep the public aware of the stupidity of doing as my hero does in <em>Mamba Point<\/em>, here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2010\/03\/26\/the-downside-of-having-poisonous-snakes-as-pets\/\">a story about the high cost of keeping poisonous snakes as pets, even when nobody gets bit<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like just offering up two links, since these things are supposed to happen in threes. Oh, I know. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitemedia.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1575:2011-beehive-book-award-nominees&amp;catid=46:front-page&amp;Itemid=74\">something kinda awesome<\/a> &#8212; <em>Mudville<\/em> is nominated for a Beehive award, given by the Children&#8217;s Literature Association of Utah. I got a very nice email from somebody about it yesterday. My Minnesota pal Laura Purdie Salas is also nominated (but in a different category, so go Laura!), as is Alan Gratz&#8230;. it seems like I&#8217;ve been running into that guy a lot lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The round-robin interview with baseball authors\u00a0continues at The Happy Nappy Bookseller&#8217;s blog. In my efforts to keep the public aware of the stupidity of doing as my hero does in Mamba Point, here is a story about the high cost of keeping poisonous snakes as pets, even when nobody gets bit.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t like just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}