{"id":669,"date":"2019-01-24T16:38:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/?p=669"},"modified":"2019-01-24T16:38:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:38:31","slug":"e114-with-sonia-faruqi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2019\/01\/24\/e114-with-sonia-faruqi\/","title":{"rendered":"E114 with SONIA FARUQI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everybody,<\/p>\n<p>I have spent the last few days avoiding my manuscript. Then, when I finally opened it again, I found myself thinking\u00a0<em>oh my god this is awful, there are so many flaws.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I woke up today and flipped the script on myself. Today I see that <em>holy wow some of this is fantastic, I better fix these flaws because the end product will be great.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The daily journey of a writer.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s guest is Sonia Faruqui. She&#8217;s a remarkable person who went from Wall St. to non-fiction author critiquing the factory farm industry to fiction\/fantasy author. Her latest, The Oyster Thief, is an imaginative work in which she&#8217;s built an incredible world. Check out the show!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GET LIT E114 Farqui Jan 24 by James Tennant\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F563920353&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everybody, I have spent the last few days avoiding my manuscript. Then, when I finally opened it again, I found myself thinking\u00a0oh my god this is awful, there are so many flaws. I woke up today and flipped the script on myself. Today I see that holy wow some of this is fantastic, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,23,31,20,24,16,13,170,449,450],"class_list":{"0":"post-669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-books","8":"tag-cfmu","9":"tag-fiction","10":"tag-get-lit","11":"tag-hamilton","12":"tag-jamie-tennant","13":"tag-literature","14":"tag-mcmaster-university","15":"tag-sonia-faruqi","16":"tag-the-oyster-thief","17":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}