{"id":298,"date":"2008-01-01T21:39:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T01:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/01\/laurel-snyder-paper-dolls\/"},"modified":"2008-01-01T21:39:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T01:39:01","slug":"laurel-snyder-paper-dolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/01\/laurel-snyder-paper-dolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurel Snyder, &#8220;Paper Dolls&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"laurel-snyder-headshot.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/laurel-snyder-headshot.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the shape of some words,<br \/>\nbut not just.<\/p>\n<p>This resembles the story<br \/>\nof a girl, but not just.<\/p>\n<p>This is called<br \/>\nmaking it daily.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead. Take scissors,<\/p>\n<p>and with a snip, make a girl.<\/p>\n<p>Might as well make many.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll all look alike,<\/p>\n<p>but some will hold fewer hands<br \/>\nthan others.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see what I mean,<br \/>\nbut not just.<\/p>\n<p>Make a flurry<br \/>\nof paper bits that won&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>seem to end, and what else<br \/>\nmight you have made?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0615161324\"><i>The Myth of the Simple Machines<\/i><\/a>. I&#8217;ve known <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishyirishy.com\/\">Laurel Snyder<\/a> for a few years now, first through email and then in person when she was promoting <i>Half-Life<\/i>, the anthology of essays she edited about growing up in interfaith families. Right now, she&#8217;s getting ready for Random House to publish <i>Up &#038; Down the Scratchy Mountain<\/i>, her first novel for young readers, and as part of the buildup to that, she&#8217;s participating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classof2k8.com\/\">Class of 2K8<\/a>, which makes her a perfect choice to start off a new year of <i>Beatrice<\/i> posts, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the shape of some words, but not just. This resembles the story of a girl, but not just. This is called making it daily. Go ahead. Take scissors, and with a snip, make a girl. Might as well make many. They&#8217;ll all look alike, but some will hold fewer hands than others. You&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}