{"id":305,"date":"2016-03-06T23:54:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T04:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2016-03-06T23:57:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T04:57:46","slug":"yerby-award-for-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Yerby Award for Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0125-e1457325718268.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-306\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0125-e1457325718268-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0125\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0125-e1457325718268-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0125-e1457325718268-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0125-e1457325718268-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0125-e1457325718268-512x512.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0132-e1457325554826.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-307\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0132-e1457325554826-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0132\" width=\"317\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0132-e1457325554826-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0132-e1457325554826-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0132-e1457325554826-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0132-e1457325554826-512x512.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_0125-e1457325718268.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-306\">In the photo, I am shown at the Augusta Literary Festival with Ted Dunnagan, the 2013 Yerby Award winner both published by NewSouth.\u00a0 Also included is a closeup of the Award plaque<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>I want to thank all of my friends and relatives for their good wishes and congratulations on my winning the Yerby Award.\u00a0 Nobody was more surprised than I was when the fourth runner-up wasn\u2019t me, and then the third wasn\u2019t, and so on until I was the last one standing!\u00a0 I have to thank my mother for all the stories she told me about her childhood, and about the years she, her mother, sister, and brother spent living with my fundamentalist great grandparents.\u00a0 Most of the incidents and characters in Halley are fictional, but, in many cases the beginning ideas came from actual events and people.<\/h2>\n<h2>Again, many thanks.<br \/>\nFaye<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the photo, I am shown at the Augusta Literary Festival with Ted Dunnagan, the 2013 Yerby Award winner both published by NewSouth.\u00a0 Also included is a closeup of the Award plaque I want to thank all of my friends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/?p=305\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fayegibbons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}