{"id":966,"date":"2005-11-26T19:17:38","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T23:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/26\/alesia-holliday-gift-idea\/"},"modified":"2005-11-26T19:17:38","modified_gmt":"2005-11-26T23:17:38","slug":"alesia-holliday-gift-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/26\/alesia-holliday-gift-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Alesia Holliday&#8217;s Holiday Gift Suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second member of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.literarychicks.com\">LiteraryChicks.com<\/A> to provide us with a holiday gift recommendation is <A href=\"http:\/\/alesiaholliday.com\/\">Alesia Holliday<\/A>, the author of <I>American Idle<\/I> and <I>Nice Girls Finish First<\/I>. She&#8217;s also got a novella in the anthology <A href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0425206149\"><I>The Naked Truth<\/I><\/A>, out this month. Then there&#8217;s her first mystery, <I>Blondes Have More Felons<\/I>, coming next spring, plus all the YA fiction she writes as Jax Abbott&#8230;clearly Alesia&#8217;s one busy woman!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"holliday.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/holliday.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"116\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>For the perfect holiday gift for any teachers you know, knew, or might someday know&#8212;or, really, just for anyone who ever went to school, my recommendation is <A href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0743243773\"><I>Teacher Man<\/I><\/A> by the amazing Frank McCourt. Anybody who knows me knows I&#8217;m in awe of the talent of this author for his gift of stripping story down to its essence; painting word portraits with brutal honesty and piercing, poignant humor. Mr. McCourt won the Pulitzer for <I>Angela&#8217;s Ashes<\/I>; I think he should win Teacher of the Century for <I>Teacher Man<\/I>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second member of LiteraryChicks.com to provide us with a holiday gift recommendation is Alesia Holliday, the author of American Idle and Nice Girls Finish First. She&#8217;s also got a novella in the anthology The Naked Truth, out this month. Then there&#8217;s her first mystery, Blondes Have More Felons, coming next spring, plus all the [&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\/966"}],"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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}