{"id":984,"date":"2010-04-07T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/04\/cool-new-blog-launch.html"},"modified":"2010-04-07T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:14:00","slug":"cool-new-blog-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/04\/cool-new-blog-launch.html","title":{"rendered":"Cool New Blog Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S7zaSKIwh1I\/AAAAAAAAAvI\/W8LTmN_lhXA\/s1600\/SleaterKinneyDigMeOut.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"198\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S7zaSKIwh1I\/AAAAAAAAAvI\/W8LTmN_lhXA\/s200\/SleaterKinneyDigMeOut.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a>TODAY I want to announce the launch of a new blog dedicated to subjects of pressing importance here in California &#8212; education, books, technology, libraries and reading.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sscribner.blogspot.com\/\">Dig Me Out<\/a> &#8212; the name comes from the founder&#8217;s roots in &#8217;90s indie rock &#8212; looks at these subjects and takes a special interest in Young Adult fiction.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s run by Pasadena school librarian Sara Scribner, who like many of her ilk in Southern California has been pink-slipped by her school district.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Sara &#8212; and that this turn of events could exile us out of state &#8212; is my wife makes me even more enthusiastic at directing readers of The Misread City to Dig Me Out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S7zafmWXlBI\/AAAAAAAAAvQ\/vj1ZRmW8UV0\/s1600\/Radical_Teacher_issue_74_cover.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S7zafmWXlBI\/AAAAAAAAAvQ\/vj1ZRmW8UV0\/s200\/Radical_Teacher_issue_74_cover.jpg\" width=\"150\"><\/a>Sara&#8217;a two latest posts are about the erosion of quality public education &#8212; something she and I both benefited from on different coasts in the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s &#8212; \u00a0and the disappearance of parents from YA novels.<\/p>\n<p>Hope my readers find Sara&#8217;s new blog intriguing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY I want to announce the launch of a new blog dedicated to subjects of pressing importance here in California &#8212; education, books, technology, libraries and reading.\u00a0Dig Me Out &#8212; the name comes from the founder&#8217;s roots in &#8217;90s indie rock &#8212; looks at these subjects and takes a special interest in Young Adult fiction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,288,40,32,71,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-education","8":"category-indie","9":"category-internet","10":"category-pasadena","11":"category-west-coast","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}