{"id":305,"date":"2012-01-23T12:35:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:15:12","slug":"passing-the-yalsa-baton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/passing-the-yalsa-baton\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing the YALSA baton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing\" src=\"http:\/\/images-partners-tbn.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTShG0RA_EUDsxEBJmClt95waBRpIITOx5ipayi33exTQfPgHsI:ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/61VJ7LFDAmL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help thinking this morning as I listened to the ALA awards about the excitement of being in the audience and hearing Janis Joplin Rise Up Singing named as the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction winner. Today Janis passes the baton to The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steven Sheinkin. Congratulations!! This is a most exciting year for Steven!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Benedict Arnold is known in\" src=\"http:\/\/images-partners-tbn.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSGco-tFs6yO-e_jf5ySo0gOIH1blu9OB4kjacx00Gm4VMOCpWI7Q:2.bp.blogspot.com\/_o1-98vITNKo\/TOH8bgI8nWI\/AAAAAAAAFD4\/3kaUQ-V-5qI\/s1600\/The%252BNotorious%252BBenedict%252BArnold.jpg\" alt=\"Benedict Arnold is known in\" width=\"186\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t help thinking this morning as I listened to the ALA awards about the excitement of being in the audience and hearing Janis Joplin Rise Up Singing named as the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction winner. Today Janis passes the baton to The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steven Sheinkin. Congratulations!! This is a most exciting &#8230; <a title=\"Passing the YALSA baton\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/passing-the-yalsa-baton\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Passing the YALSA baton\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}