{"id":1164,"date":"2017-03-31T01:33:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.gregoryfrost.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2017-03-31T01:33:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:33:47","slug":"historical-author-janet-benton-on-the-oddcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=1164","title":{"rendered":"Historical Author Janet Benton on the Oddcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Benton talks about writing and researching her debut novel <em>Lilli De Jong,<\/em> and tells us why Kirkus Reviews called it a \u201cmonumental achievement.\u201d Author Jamie Ford adds:\u201cA powerful, authentic voice for a generation of women whose struggles were erased from history\u2014a heart-smashing debut that completely satisfies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u00a0has worked at magazines and newspapers and taught at four colleges, as well as running the writer\u2019s workshop The Word Studio. Find out about all this and more on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theliarscluboddcast.projectentertainment.libsynpro.com\/\">LIARS CLUB ODDCAST<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(and check out Jon McGoran, Bill Russell, and a host of others).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1165\" src=\"http:\/\/new.gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LilliDeJong.jpg\" alt=\"Lilli-De-Jong\" width=\"192\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LilliDeJong.jpg 192w, https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/LilliDeJong-97x150.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janet Benton talks about writing and researching her debut novel Lilli De Jong, and tells us why Kirkus Reviews called it a \u201cmonumental achievement.\u201d Author Jamie Ford adds:\u201cA powerful, authentic voice for a generation of women whose struggles were erased from history\u2014a heart-smashing debut that completely satisfies.\u201d She\u00a0has worked at\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/?p=1164\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[303,127,197,7],"tags":[306,304,307,305,54,308,101,74,104,150],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-fiction","category-on-writing","category-podcast","category-words","tag-historical-novel","tag-janet-benton","tag-knopf","tag-lilli-de-jong","tag-philadelphia","tag-the-word-studio","tag-writers-discussing-writing","tag-writing-advice","tag-writing-craft","tag-writing-workshops"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcmYKr-iM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregoryfrost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}