{"id":14,"date":"2008-06-27T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=14"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:08","slug":"melissa-nathan-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/melissa-nathan-award","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think chick lit is dead, think again &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melissanathan.com\/Award\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance<\/a>, held for the first time in 2007 and the second just a few days ago, could almost be called the Chick Lit Award. I think it&#8217;s great &#8211; tons of people (women and men) read these books, and award shows are a great way to let us know about some of the best. My only complaint is that it&#8217;s limited to British authors. While I agree that chick lit was born in the UK and many of the best books are British, there are one or two good books published elsewhere. Why shouldn&#8217;t they be recognized? I guess it&#8217;s up to me to make sure you know about good chick lit no matter where it&#8217;s published with my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/heart-awards\">Chick Literate Heart Awards<a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think chick lit is dead, think again &#8211; the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance, held for the first time in 2007 and the second just a few days ago, could almost be called the Chick Lit Award. I think it&#8217;s great &#8211; tons of people (women and men) read these books, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit","tag-chick-lit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrK2-e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}