{"id":155,"date":"2008-06-13T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/holy-batman-and-free-arcs\/"},"modified":"2012-02-18T08:21:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T14:21:12","slug":"holy-batman-and-free-arcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/holy-batman-and-free-arcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Batman and Free ARCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 Brenda Novak Diabetes Auction ended on May 31.  And my box of lovely chocolate truffles went for <a href=\"http:\/\/brendanovak.auctionanything.com\/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&amp;Auction_uid1=1005270&amp;_UserReference=D1D0771246B68D739C6794E23ED148527C6B\" class=\"broken_link\">$305<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>::Picks self off the floor::<\/p>\n<p>And today I got notice that the bidder paid.  I&#8217;m not sure I believed she would but she did.  I&#8217;m stupefied. <\/p>\n<p>::Tells self that it is a beautiful, beautiful box of chocolates.  And comes with an ARC of Delicious too::<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the winner and my baffled and enormous gratitude too.  And thank you also to everyone who bid on the chocolate truffles. <\/p>\n<p>In other news, this time there are no chocolate truffles involved, but Romantic Times is giving away 5 signed ARCs of Delicious on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romantictimes.com\/news_sherrythomascontest.php\" class=\"broken_link\">website<\/a>.  So go forth and enter and win yourself a free book.  And I was still noticeably editing the book during the page proof stage (after the ARC was printed), so if there&#8217;s anything you don&#8217;t like in the ARC, just think that it was fixed in the end.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 Brenda Novak Diabetes Auction ended on May 31. And my box of lovely chocolate truffles went for $305! ::Picks self off the floor:: And today I got notice that the bidder paid. I&#8217;m not sure I believed she would but she did. I&#8217;m stupefied. ::Tells self that it is a beautiful, beautiful box &#8230; <a title=\"Holy Batman and Free ARCs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/13\/holy-batman-and-free-arcs\/\" aria-label=\"More on Holy Batman and Free ARCs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[23,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sherrythomas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}