{"id":1203,"date":"2005-08-15T17:43:54","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/15\/responsibility-taking-active-voice\/"},"modified":"2005-08-15T17:43:54","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T21:43:54","slug":"responsibility-taking-active-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/15\/responsibility-taking-active-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Note the Responsibility-Taking Active Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was busy doing research, the <I>SB,TB<\/I> crew put up <A href=\"http:\/\/www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com\/index.php\/weblog\/smart_bitches_interview_with_gayle_wilson_president_elect_of_rwa\/\">an interview with Gayle Wilson<\/A>, the Romance Writers of America president-elect, although Wilson makes it plain &#8220;she is answering for herself, and not as a spokesperson for the RWA&#8221; when she says things like &#8220;I believe that one of the biggest problems this year has been our failure to communicate promptly and appropriately with our members&#8230;We have&#8230; made mistakes. We regret them, and we have learned from them. I know that simply saying that will not reassure outraged members, but I hope that by our future actions we can restore the trust that was damaged this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very exciting, though, to see the RWA&#8217;s incoming leader state unequivocally that &#8220;the organization doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t define the genre; the genre defines the organization. And the genre is vibrant and growing and evolving.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was busy doing research, the SB,TB crew put up an interview with Gayle Wilson, the Romance Writers of America president-elect, although Wilson makes it plain &#8220;she is answering for herself, and not as a spokesperson for the RWA&#8221; when she says things like &#8220;I believe that one of the biggest problems this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}