{"id":4675,"date":"2009-04-01T20:37:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2009-04-01T20:37:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:37:28","slug":"zorgamazoo-wins-3rd-prize-at-new-york-book-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/01\/zorgamazoo-wins-3rd-prize-at-new-york-book-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Zorgamazoo wins 3rd prize at New York Book Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wayofthewest.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/ny-book-show.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"ZMZ at NY Book Show, March 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/wayofthewest.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/ny-book-show.jpg?w=180&amp;h=135\" alt=\"ZMZ at NY Book Show, March 2009\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>*************<\/p>\n<p>Good news to report from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zorgamazoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Weston<\/a> (Nara-ken, 2002-04)<\/strong>, author of the rhyming novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zorgamazoo.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Zorgamazoo<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One reason I travelled to NYC last week was because my book was up for a design award from the Bookbinder&#8217;s Guild of New York, presented at the New York Book Show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zorgamazoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zorgamazoo<\/a> won 3rd prize in the Young Adult Hardcover category! The book was beaten out by two other impressive entries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Guardian-Spirit-Moribito-Nahoko-Uehashi\/dp\/0545005434\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1238426151&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Moribito<\/a> by Nahoko Uehashi, which took 2nd prize, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/ghostgirl-Tonya-Hurley\/dp\/0316113573\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1238426332&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Ghostgirl<\/a> by Tonya Hurley, which claimed the category.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wayofthewest.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/01\/3rd-prize-in-a-beauty-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(Click here to read the rest of Rob&#8217;s post)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/31\/jet-alumni-author-showcase-video-clips\/\" target=\"_self\">Click here<\/a> to watch a <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/31\/jet-alumni-author-showcase-video-clips\/\">video clip of Rob reading reading a selection<\/a> from <em>Zorgamazoo<\/em> at the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/23\/jet-alumni-author-showcase-yatta\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>JET Alumni Author Showcase<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>************* Good news to report from Rob Weston (Nara-ken, 2002-04), author of the rhyming novel Zorgamazoo: One reason I travelled to NYC last week was because my book was up for a design award from the Bookbinder&#8217;s Guild of New York, presented at the New York Book Show. &#8230;I&#8217;m very pleased to announce that Zorgamazoo [&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":[40,12,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cartoonillustration","category-uncategorized","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-1dp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","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=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}