{"id":3,"date":"2011-03-25T18:40:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2011-03-25T22:31:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T22:31:36","slug":"exciting-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/exciting-reading-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Reading Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skrishnasbooks.com\/2010\/06\/south-asian-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Swapna Krishna&#8217;s 2011 South Asian Reading Challenge<\/a><\/span><\/strong> quite by chance last week. And am I glad I did! Started in 2010, the goal of the SA Reading Challenge is to promote books on South Asia or by South Asian writers. Participants sign up to read as many books as possible that fit the criteria, in a year. What I found most interesting about the challenge were the fun &#8216;levels&#8217; Swapna has created for the participants. I&#8217;m listing them below:<\/p>\n<p>South Asian Encounter &#8211; 1 book<br \/>\nSouth Asian Wanderer &#8211; 3 books<br \/>\nSouth Asian Explorer &#8211; 5 books<br \/>\nSouth Asian Adventurer &#8211; 7 books<br \/>\nSouth Asian Hero\/Heroine &#8211; 10 books<br \/>\nSouth Asian Guru &#8211; Over 10 books<\/p>\n<p>Papercuts Editor and DWL Co-founder<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aafsterlife.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Afia Aslam<\/a><\/span><\/strong> has already signed up! Do you think you can be a South Asian Guru in 2011? Sign up<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skrishnasbooks.com\/2010\/12\/2011-south-asian-challenge-sign-ups.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across Swapna Krishna&#8217;s 2011 South Asian Reading Challenge quite by chance last week. And am I glad I did! Started in 2010, the goal of the SA Reading Challenge is to promote books on South Asia or by South Asian writers. Participants sign up to read as many books as possible that fit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}