{"id":4229,"date":"2009-03-15T16:40:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T16:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2009-03-15T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T16:40:44","slug":"more-acclaim-for-robert-westons-zorgamazoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/15\/more-acclaim-for-robert-westons-zorgamazoo\/","title":{"rendered":"More acclaim for Robert Weston&#8217;s &#8220;Zorgamazoo&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zorgamazoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-490 alignright\" title=\"Zorgamazoo\" src=\"http:\/\/wayofthewest.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/cover-art-150-pixels.jpg?w=106&amp;h=150\" alt=\"Zorgamazoo Cover Art\" width=\"143\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em>According to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zorgamazoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Weston&#8217;s<\/a> (Nara-ken, 2002-04)<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/wayofthewest.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/14\/zmz-tipped-by-national-council-of-teachers-of-english-childrens-literature-assembly\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent post on his blog<\/a>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zorgamazoo.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Zorgamazoo<\/strong><\/em><\/a> has been chosen by the <strong>Children\u2019s Literature Assembly<\/strong> as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensliteratureassembly.org\/notable2009.htm\" target=\"_blank\">notable book for 2009<\/a>. The Assembly is affiliated with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncte.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Council of Teachers of English<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rob explains that each year the Assembly selects 30 titles that <em>\u201cdemonstrate uniqueness in the use of language or style; involve word play, word origins, or the history of language; and invite child response or participation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It would be an understatement in the extreme to say that <em>Zorgamazoo<\/em> makes unique use of language, style and word play.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>Omedetou gozaimasu<\/em><\/em> from the JET alum community on collecting yet another accolade for your writing.\u00a0 And see you Sunday, March 22 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/04\/jet-alumni-author-showcase-kelts-kennedy-and-weston-march-22-2\/\"><strong>JET Alumni Author Showcase<\/strong><\/a> in NYC!<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Rob Weston&#8217;s (Nara-ken, 2002-04) recent post on his blog, &#8220;Zorgamazoo has been chosen by the Children\u2019s Literature Assembly as a notable book for 2009. The Assembly is affiliated with the National Council of Teachers of English.&#8221; Rob explains that each year the Assembly selects 30 titles that \u201cdemonstrate uniqueness in the use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,40,53,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-events","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-16d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}