{"id":4,"date":"2010-10-03T14:08:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T21:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2010-10-22T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:47:52","slug":"hello-from-linda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Linda"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_44291.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38\" title=\"IMG_4429\" src=\"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_44291-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_44291-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_44291-662x1024.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Books pile up on the desk of the blog editor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hi, this will soon be my book blog. \u00a0I was the book-review editor of the Winston-Salem Journal for 25 years. \u00a0Since August, that book-review page is history, and so is my editorship. However, I&#8217;ve still been reading. And publishers have kindly been sending me review copies. So, as soon as I figure out what I&#8217;m doing, the reviews will resume.<\/p>\n<p>I am calling the blog Briar Patch Books for three reasons. First, although I will review a broad range of books, I am partial to Southern literature, and particularly literature from North Carolina. Second, I live in a rural area of Stokes County, N.C., out where the blackberries grow wild. And third, one of the reasons I&#8217;ve always loved literature is because as a young child, I listened to my father, J.P Carter, as he masterfully told (and acted out) the stories of Joel Chandler Harris. When The Sentinel newspaper was folded in 1985, and the editors at the city&#8217;s surviving newspaper, the Winston-Salem Journal, asked if I&#8217;d be interested in editing the book-review page, my response was, in\u00a0 essence, like Br&#8217;er Rabbit&#8217;s &#8220;Please don&#8217;t throw me in the briar patch!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, this will soon be my book blog. \u00a0I was the book-review editor of the Winston-Salem Journal for 25 years. \u00a0Since August, that book-review page is history, and so is my editorship. However, I&#8217;ve still been reading. And publishers have kindly been sending me review copies. So, as soon as I figure out what I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}