{"id":961,"date":"2005-12-04T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/04\/chelsea-cain-gift-idea\/"},"modified":"2005-12-04T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T20:00:10","slug":"chelsea-cain-gift-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/04\/chelsea-cain-gift-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Cain&#8217;s Holiday Gift Suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall <A href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/cat_a2a_chelsea_cain_susan_kandel.html\">Chelsea Cain&#8217;s Author2Author<\/A> feature with Susan Kandel earlier this year. You should definitely track down her Nancy Drew parody, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1582345112\"><I>Confessions of a Teen Sleuth<\/I><\/A>, which is a full 180 degrees from her holiday gift recommendation&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"chelseacain.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/chelseacain.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"139\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/><A href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0375421459\"><I>Veronica<\/I><\/A>, by Mary Gaitskill: A National Book Award finalist (I know! A risky pick on my part!), <I>Veronica<\/I> is a twisted, beautiful, grotesque, graceful, lyrical little masterpiece in which a beaten-down former model ruminates about her life. Hint: It&#8217;s not happy. But it&#8217;s sooooo good. I am confident that I will write the rest of my life, and not come up with five sentences as good as any in this book.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall Chelsea Cain&#8217;s Author2Author feature with Susan Kandel earlier this year. You should definitely track down her Nancy Drew parody, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth, which is a full 180 degrees from her holiday gift recommendation&#8230; Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill: A National Book Award finalist (I know! A risky pick on my part!), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"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=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}