{"id":2814,"date":"2016-03-25T22:33:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2016-03-27T15:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T10:28:39","slug":"dwl-lit-bites-mar-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/dwl-lit-bites-mar-25\/","title":{"rendered":"DWL Lit Bites &#8211; Mar 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers! It is another week and I have a round-up of links from around the interwebs. Obviously I had to include some JK Rowling love because she is awesome and keeps making noise in the literary world. So let&#8217;s do this!<\/p>\n<p>1. JK Rowling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-35899243\" target=\"_blank\">shared some of the rejection letters she received <\/a>from publishers to encourage writers not to give up, basically proving once again that she is a goddess among\u00a0Muggles.<\/p>\n<p>2. If you are forever confused at the constant state of change in the literary world, like &#8220;white people explaining an Oriental phenomenon is basically Eat, Pray, Loving over the whole thing&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2016\/03\/a-modern-literary-glossary-definitions-for-our-ever-changing-reading-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">then this literary glossary from The Millions<\/a> is for you.<\/p>\n<p>3.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/mar\/15\/william-shakespeare-handwritten-plea-for-refugees-online-sir-thomas-more-script-play-british-library-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0An incredible handwritten\u00a0script\u00a0by William Shakespeare,\u00a0<\/a>in which he recreated\u00a0Sir Thomas More&#8217;s plea for\u00a0the humane treatment of refugees, will soon be available online. The bard&#8217;s words are extremely pertinent given the ongoing issue of providing asylum and humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees and the European, and especially British, response to the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers! It is another week and I have a round-up of links from around the interwebs. Obviously I had to include some JK Rowling love because she is awesome and keeps making noise in the literary world. So let&#8217;s do this! 1. JK Rowling shared some of the rejection letters she received from publishers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[517],"tags":[703,671,702,608,701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}