{"id":9802,"date":"2011-11-18T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=9802"},"modified":"2011-11-18T07:09:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:09:27","slug":"something-other-than-proofing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/something-other-than-proofing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Stuff, Not Proofing &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, still a-goin&#8217; with that thar proofin&#8217; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But rather than focusing on that I thought I&#8217;d point you toward a few fun things for today&#8217;s post, as in:<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Supernatural Underground<\/strong><\/a> where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimfalconer.com\/home.html\"><strong>Kim Falconer<\/strong><\/a> is discussing <strong>Vampire Evolution<\/strong>&#8212;from soul sucking fiends to sparkly romantic leads. To check out what she has to say and perhaps add your mite to the conversation, click <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/vampire-evolution.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may be vampires on the Supernatural Underground, but <a href=\"http:\/\/rippatton.livejournal.com\/\"><strong>Ripley Patton<\/strong><\/a> is making <strong>Notes to (Her)Self for a Zombie Apocalypse<\/strong>&#8212;and how to survive the same. Worth checking out if the possibility of World War Z is on your mind, <a href=\"http:\/\/rippatton.livejournal.com\/88422.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another interesting post lately was an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.nz\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=nk%20jemisin&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CB0QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnkjemisin.com%2F&amp;ei=mk3FTsqvOcKyiQf8yIHbDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNHoUJcyp6Mpkt9jC17Lmg5UIOu-Eg&amp;cad=rja\"><strong>NK Jemisin<\/strong><\/a> (<strong><em>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms<\/em><\/strong> et al) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.nz\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=david%20anthony%20durham&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CC4QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidanthonydurham.com%2F&amp;ei=uk3FTqrDA4uiiAei7-DpDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNHnMHXFacc7z-EHAjAE1o-88Rhrfg&amp;cad=rja\"><strong>David Anthony Durham<\/strong><\/a> (<strong><em>Acacia<\/em><\/strong>) titled <em>&#8220;If Tolkien Were Black&#8221;<\/em>&#8212;both talking about their own experience and stepping outside of Northern European culturo-mythic history in creating Fantasy, particularly epic fantasy. Definitely worth a read, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/11\/09\/if_tolkien_were_black\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for that proofing&#8212;I&#8217;ll let you know how it&#8217;s all going tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, still a-goin&#8217; with that thar proofin&#8217; &#8230; But rather than focusing on that I thought I&#8217;d point you toward a few fun things for today&#8217;s post, as in: The Supernatural Underground where Kim Falconer is discussing Vampire Evolution&#8212;from soul sucking fiends to sparkly romantic leads. To check out what she has to say and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9802"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9810,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802\/revisions\/9810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}