{"id":2430,"date":"2012-07-10T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:49:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:49:48","slug":"ready-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/07\/10\/ready-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to read!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m ready to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nalo-Hopkinson\/e\/B001IR1QAC\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1\">Nalo Hopkinson&#8217;s<\/a> entire <i>oeuvre! <\/i>Partly because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Midnight-Robber-Nalo-Hopkinson\/dp\/0446675601\/ref=la_B001IR1QAC_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1341933662&amp;sr=1-1\">Midnight Robber<\/a> sounds awesome [and has a cover apparently drawn by my favorite illustrators, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_and_Diane_Dillon\">Leo and Diane Dillon]<\/a> and partly because I need <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Brown-Girl-Ring-Nalo-Hopkinson\/dp\/0446674338\/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_nC?ie=UTF8&amp;colid=1W39P5UQ861JQ&amp;coliid=I1A21CIZUC0J7P\">an antidote<\/a> to all those stories that treat Voudun like a lazy trashcan stereotype for &#8220;primitive evil magic.&#8221; [I&#8217;m looking at you, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogofstench.livejournal.com\/282947.html\">Chasing the Dead<\/a> by Joe Schreiber, for just one of innumerable examples.]<\/p>\n<p>The local library even has some of her books available for borrowing. Very surprising, given that Vermont is like the second whitest state in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Oh no, Leo Dillon is dead! No more beautiful collaborations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m ready to read Nalo Hopkinson&#8217;s entire oeuvre! Partly because Midnight Robber sounds awesome [and has a cover apparently drawn by my favorite illustrators, Leo and Diane Dillon] and partly because I need an antidote to all those stories that treat Voudun like a lazy trashcan stereotype for &#8220;primitive evil magic.&#8221; [I&#8217;m looking at you,&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/07\/10\/ready-to-read\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready to read!!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[672,657,656],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books-i-actually-like","tag-people-of-color","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5300,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}