{"id":184,"date":"2012-01-16T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2012-01-16T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T15:00:00","slug":"the-big-picture-reflective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"The Big Picture (reflective)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-nrHn2SpTfj4\/TxQngWrs8AI\/AAAAAAAAHU8\/AvDTQYRFWus\/s1600\/BooksYALove%2BWordle%2BJan2012.PNG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"128\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-nrHn2SpTfj4\/TxQngWrs8AI\/AAAAAAAAHU8\/AvDTQYRFWus\/s200\/BooksYALove%2BWordle%2BJan2012.PNG?resize=200%2C128\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Have you ever WORDLED? I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/\">their free app<\/a> to create the nifty word cloud here, using my initial blogpost about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/\">MotherReader<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leewind.org\/\">Lee Wind<\/a>&#8216;s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/2012\/01\/comment-challenge-2012.html\">Comment Challenge<\/a> for kidlit bloggers, 2012 edition.<\/p>\n<p>What fun it&#8217;s been to &#8220;meet&#8221; illustrators, authors, and book bloggers through the Challenge! Getting out of my &#8220;writing silo&#8221; where I see only my computer screen and the books that I&#8217;m recommending so that I interact more with the diverse and supportive kidlit community online &#8211; priceless!<\/p>\n<p>Since BooksYALove is a fairly new blog, I&#8217;m grateful for new visitors (and new followers &#8211; yay!) who will help spread the word about the wonderful YA books from debut authors and smaller imprints that I&#8217;m discovering.<\/p>\n<p>After all, I&#8217;m writing these recommendations (no spoilers ever! I promise) for YA readers&#8230; right book for the right reader!<br \/>**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever WORDLED? I used their free app to create the nifty word cloud here, using my initial blogpost about MotherReader and Lee Wind&#8216;s annual Comment Challenge for kidlit bloggers, 2012 edition. What fun it&#8217;s been to &#8220;meet&#8221; illustrators, authors, and book bloggers through the Challenge! Getting out of my &#8220;writing silo&#8221; where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[47,23,98],"tags":[83,82,55,11,97,111,31,150,53,8,61],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-books","category-nonfiction","category-reflective","tag-authors","tag-blogging","tag-books","tag-communication","tag-habits","tag-non-us-artist","tag-non-us-author","tag-twitter","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}