{"id":1235,"date":"2010-08-01T14:36:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T04:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2010-08-01T14:45:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T04:45:27","slug":"rita-brunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/rita-brunch\/","title":{"rendered":"RITA brunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely brunch today with fellow RITA finalist Kelly Hunter, her husband, and Gordon, in a sunny caf\u00e9 in town. Good food, good company, lively conversation&#8230; and Gordon&#8217;s iPad, on which we all watched the Twitter feed for announcements about the Golden Heart and RITA finalists. Kelly and I may have forgotten to breathe occasionally, but it was a lovely way to experience the excitement, since neither of us could make it to Orlando. (And we didn&#8217;t have to put on high heels and makeup, or face conference chicken dinner&#8230;!) Technology is wonderful \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Neither of us won our categories, but that&#8217;s okay &#8211; we had a lovely morning, and it&#8217;s such a huge honour just to final in the RITA&#8217;s!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to congratulate ALL the winners in the Golden Heart and RITAs &#8211; with a special shout-out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauragriffin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Griffin<\/a>, who won the RITA for the romantic suspense category, AND won our category in the Daphne du Maurier Award on Thursday; and an extra-big, happy-dancing shout-out to Australia&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyliegriffin.com\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kylie Griffin<\/a>, who won a Golden Heart Award in the paranormal romance category for her manuscript, Bloodborn.<\/p>\n<p>Huge congrats, Kylie! I couldn&#8217;t be happier for you!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a lovely brunch today with fellow RITA finalist Kelly Hunter, her husband, and Gordon, in a sunny caf\u00e9 in town. Good food, good company, lively conversation&#8230; and Gordon&#8217;s iPad, on which we all watched the Twitter feed for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/rita-brunch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}