{"id":705,"date":"2007-03-07T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T01:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/07\/california-here-come\/"},"modified":"2010-07-23T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T01:30:23","slug":"california-here-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/07\/california-here-come\/","title":{"rendered":"California, Here I Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: As part of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/extras\/festivalofbooks\/\"><i>Los Angeles Times<\/i> Festival of Books<\/a>, I&#8217;ll be one of the speakers for a panel on blogging and literature, along with <b>Carolyn Kellogg<\/b> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkyspaperhaus.com\/\"><i>Pinky&#8217;s Paperhaus<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewkeen.typepad.com\/\"><b>Andrew Keen<\/b><\/a>, author of the forthcoming <i>The Cult of the Amateur<\/i>, which explains &#8220;how the democratization of the digital world is assaulting our economy, our culture, and our values.&#8221; Sounds like novelist and short story writer <a href=\"http:\/\/todgoldberg.typepad.com\/\"><b>Tod Goldberg<\/b><\/a> is going to have his work cut out for him as moderator, because my first reaction to that subtitle is to declare, &#8220;And that&#8217;s a <i>good<\/i> thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I jest, of course; I haven&#8217;t seen Keen&#8217;s book yet. But I&#8217;m going to be sure to get my hands on a copy, because I&#8217;m pretty sure this has the potential to be a really lively debate, and I want to be prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official: As part of this year&#8217;s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, I&#8217;ll be one of the speakers for a panel on blogging and literature, along with Carolyn Kellogg of Pinky&#8217;s Paperhaus and Andrew Keen, author of the forthcoming The Cult of the Amateur, which explains &#8220;how the democratization of the digital world is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705"}],"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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}