{"id":365,"date":"2007-10-21T20:54:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T00:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/21\/usa-today-review\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T18:17:11","slug":"usa-today-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/21\/usa-today-review\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lovely Whitney Matheson wrote a lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/books\/reviews\/2007-10-17-youngadult_N.htm\">review<\/a> of Diary for USA Today, with a really nice nod to me:<\/p>\n<p>Adolescence is difficult for everyone, but it&#8217;s especially tough for Arnold &#8220;Junior&#8221; Spirit, a boy who lives with his poor relatives and was born with serious medical problems. Junior has transferred from his school on an Indian reservation to an all-white high school. He copes by cartooning \u2014 <strong>Forney&#8217;s flawless artwork is invaluable to Alexie&#8217;s story<\/strong> \u2014 and developing unlikely friendships. [more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/books\/reviews\/2007-10-17-youngadult_N.htm\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lovely Whitney Matheson wrote a lovely review of Diary for USA Today, with a really nice nod to me: Adolescence is difficult for everyone, but it&#8217;s especially tough for Arnold &#8220;Junior&#8221; Spirit, a boy who lives with his poor relatives and was born with serious medical problems. Junior has transferred from his school on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/21\/usa-today-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USA Today Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}