{"id":6334,"date":"2015-10-09T18:53:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T17:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2015-10-09T18:53:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T17:53:50","slug":"a-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=6334","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6335\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aspen-gold-badge-on-white.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6335\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/aspen-gold-badge-on-white.jpg\" alt=\"I love my shiny gold award badge.\" width=\"245\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I love my shiny gold award badge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am bouncing around with a big smile on my face\u2026 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?page_id=3842\">Flight to Coorah Creek<\/a><\/em> has just won the Aspen Gold Reader\u2019s Choice Award for a single title Romance.<\/p>\n<p>This award is presented by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hodrw.com\/\">Heart of Denver chapter<\/a> of the Romance writers of America. I tied for first place with well-known US romance writer <a href=\"http:\/\/nancyherkness.com\/\">Nancy Herkness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fabulous honour and I am thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>It is particularly wonderful because I\u2019ve visited Denver and really enjoyed my stay there. In particular, I loved the <a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=6196\">Big Blue Bear<\/a> &#8211; a\u00a04 storey high statue that looks in through the windows of the Denver Convention Centre.<\/p>\n<p>And now \u2013 the Big Blue Bear likes my book. How totally wonderful is that?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6336\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Reading-bear-smaller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6336\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Reading-bear-smaller.jpg\" alt=\"The big blue bear reads romance - courtesy of Webmaster Johns photo manipulation skills. \" width=\"575\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Big Blue Bear reads romance &#8211; courtesy of Webmaster John&#8217;s photo manipulation skills.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am bouncing around with a big smile on my face\u2026 Flight to Coorah Creek has just won the Aspen Gold Reader\u2019s Choice Award for a single title Romance. This award is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g6jm-1Ea","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}