{"id":28190,"date":"2015-11-12T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=28190"},"modified":"2015-11-12T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:19:21","slug":"thimbles-full-of-news-slurry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/11\/12\/thimbles-full-of-news-slurry\/","title":{"rendered":"Thimbles Full Of News Slurry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/08\/19\/432582315\/zer0es-takes-the-cyber-thriller-to-an-electrifying-extreme\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2015\/08\/18\/zeroes_2560_wide-31e838e5e1555301368cbe92ba6600a6bf1e06c2.jpg?resize=699%2C393\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some quick newsy bits of note:<\/p>\n<p>First up, readers have written-in\u00a0<strong>Star Wars: Aftermath<\/strong> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/choiceawards\/best-science-fiction-books-2015\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Goodreads Choice Awards under the Best Sci-Fi Books of 2015 category<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, so thank you! That category and all the others have an overwhelmingly awesome array of books, so, y&#8217;know, go vote for some. And if you do end up voting for\u00a0<strong>Aftermath<\/strong>, hey, thank you a whole buncha bunches.<\/p>\n<p>Next:\u00a0<strong>Zer0es<\/strong> is one of Amazon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1krxeHx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>best books of 2015 in the sci-fi and fantasy category<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, putting me in truly enviable company. Thanks to Amazon, and hope you guys <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1krxgyZ\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>check the book out<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. (Oh, and an audio version\u00a0<em>is<\/em> in the works!)<\/p>\n<p>And reminder! Tomorrow night! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doylestownbookshop.com\/event\/adam-christopher-conversation-chuck-wendig\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>6:30PM, me and Adam Christopher will be at the Doylestown Bookshop<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. He&#8217;ll be talking Made to Kill. I&#8217;ll be talking Star Wars and Zer0es. We&#8217;ll both be talking The Shield. It&#8217;ll be awesome. BE THERE, PA\/NJ\/DE HUMANS.<\/p>\n<p>Next Thursday\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queens.edu\/News-and-Information\/Chuck-Wendig-Aftermath-Star-Wars.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>my Charlotte appearance<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>And, uhh. THAT&#8217;S IT, I GUESS.<\/p>\n<p>*flings down smoke bomb*<\/p>\n<p>*coughs because of smoke*<\/p>\n<p>*why do I keep buying these*<\/p>\n<p>*stupid smoke*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some quick newsy bits of note: First up, readers have written-in\u00a0Star Wars: Aftermath to the Goodreads Choice Awards under the Best Sci-Fi Books of 2015 category, so thank you! That category and all the others have an overwhelmingly awesome array of books, so, y&#8217;know, go vote for some. And if you do end up voting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-7kG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28193,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28190\/revisions\/28193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}