{"id":2205,"date":"2013-03-27T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:01:47","slug":"exciting-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/exciting-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a phone call from the US a short while ago, with the wonderful news that Dead Heat is a finalist in the romantic suspense category of the Romance Writers of America <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwa.org\/p\/cm\/ld\/fid=528\">RITA awards.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much to the lovely Jeanne Pickering Adams who was the Board member who called me &#8211; I hope I didn&#8217;t squeal too loudly in her ear!<\/p>\n<p>The RITA awards are often described as the &#8216;Oscars&#8217; for the romance genre &#8211; the winners are announced at the gala awards night at the end of the Romance Writers of America conference, which this year will be in Atlanta, Georgia, from July 17-20th. I will be going to the conference this year, and I&#8217;m very much looking forward to it! When Dark Country finalled in the RITAs in 2010, sadly I couldn&#8217;t go because of pending brain surgery &#8211; but this time I&#8217;ll be there!<\/p>\n<p>The full list of finalists will be posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwa.org\/p\/cm\/ld\/fid=528\">RWA website<\/a> later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a phone call from the US a short while ago, with the wonderful news that Dead Heat is a finalist in the romantic suspense category of the Romance Writers of America RITA awards. Thank you so much to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/exciting-news\/\">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":[1,4],"tags":[134,85,86],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news","tag-dead-heat","tag-news-2","tag-rwamerica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","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=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}