{"id":320,"date":"2014-01-29T09:24:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2014-01-29T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:24:35","slug":"asking-for-a-friend-the-not-amused-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Asking for a friend: the not-amused edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who has developed an academic interest in what she terms neo-Victorian kids&#8217; lit (\/MG) and YA.  I have asked, and she does not draw a firm line between that and steampunk.  Recommendations, anti-recommendations, interesting works to discuss: go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start: Chris Moriarty&#8217;s <em>The Inquisitor&#8217;s Apprentice<\/em> fills my heart with joy, and I only wish she would write another, or I only wish they would publish another, or <em>something<\/em>.  (That is, however, Victorian era but US setting.  Not sure if it matters.  Friend can show up and say so if it does.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who has developed an academic interest in what she terms neo-Victorian kids&#8217; lit (\/MG) and YA. I have asked, and she does not draw a firm line between that and steampunk. Recommendations, anti-recommendations, interesting works to discuss: go. I&#8217;ll start: Chris Moriarty&#8217;s The Inquisitor&#8217;s Apprentice fills my heart with joy, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,27,25,26],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious","tag-my-friends-rule","tag-my-uncle-has-a-barn","tag-random-questions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}