{"id":526,"date":"2008-03-10T07:52:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T15:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2008\/03\/10\/practice-your-voting\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T15:52:22","slug":"practice-your-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2008\/03\/practice-your-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice your voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/erica_1bw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/erica_1bw.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"223\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Erica Eisdorfer has long been known in book circles around here and not just because she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s managed the Bullshead Book Shop on campus for so many years.Her name got a little wider circulation this week after Amazon.com named her new work, The Wet Nurse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tale, one of the top ten finalists in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest.<!--more-->She sends along this reaction: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I guess I could say that this is the thrill of a lifetime for me. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been writing novels and sticking them under my bed for many years and this sort of recognition is just about as validating as possible. The contest began in November and there were 5,000 entries, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great to have lasted.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dInterested parties are invited to log on to the Amazon site, read an excerpt from the novel and consider a vote for Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next literary champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Erica Eisdorfer has long been known in book circles around here and not just because she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s managed the Bullshead Book Shop on campus for so many years.Her name got a little wider circulation this week after Amazon.com named her new work, The Wet Nurse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tale, one of the top ten finalists in the Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}