{"id":1280,"date":"2010-10-09T09:48:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T23:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2010-10-09T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T00:11:01","slug":"birthday-bonanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/birthday-bonanza\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday bonanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister and I are back from our trip &#8211; we had a great time, but more on that in a forthcoming post, when I will have some photos to share.<\/p>\n<p>This post is about some other good news: in a lovely piece of timing, I had an email during the week from the fiction editor at Woman&#8217;s Day magazine, to say that my short story will be in the issue that will be out this coming Monday, October 11th &#8211; which just happens to be my birthday!<\/p>\n<p>Add that to an inspiring trip away and some great location research, and I think it calls for a celebration giveaway, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>For a chance to win a signed copy of the UK edition of Dark Country, OR, if you already have Dark Country, then a $20 gift voucher from a bookstore of your choice, simply comment in this post, and tell us a) what you thought about the short story, OR b) what place in Australia you&#8217;d love to see as a book setting (you don&#8217;t have to have been there yourself &#8211; this is open to international readers and armchair travellers!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll randomly draw one winner from the commenters on Sunday, 17th October.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s hear where you&#8217;d like to see a book set &#8211; I know where my current book will be inspired by, but there&#8217;s still a book to write after that, and after that&#8230;. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister and I are back from our trip &#8211; we had a great time, but more on that in a forthcoming post, when I will have some photos to share. This post is about some other good news: in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/birthday-bonanza\/\">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":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","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=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}