{"id":898,"date":"2019-12-19T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/?p=898"},"modified":"2019-12-19T15:35:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:35:37","slug":"e161-with-leslie-shimotakahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/e161-with-leslie-shimotakahara\/","title":{"rendered":"E161 with LESLIE SHIMOTAKAHARA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It amazes me, quite honestly, that GET LIT is in its fourth season. The first episode aired on my 47th birthday, and now we&#8217;re here, on the cusp of 2020,  with the one hundred sixty-first episode. How&#8217;d that happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What this means is I&#8217;m starting to get more and more repeat authors, who have new books available (what a kick in the pants for me to make MY next book happen!) (it&#8217;s finished, I just need to shop it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s guest, back for a second time, is the fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leslieshimotakahara.com\/\"><strong>Leslie Shimotakahara. <\/strong><\/a>We talk about her newest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundurn.com\/books\/Red-Oblivion\"><strong>Red Oblivion.<\/strong><\/a>  Check it out and if you like it, you can hear her talk about her last novel, After the Bloom, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2017\/05\/04\/get-lit-24-with-leslie-shimotakahara\/\"><strong>Episode 24<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merry merry and happy happy, all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GET LIT E161 Shimotakahara De 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%2F729423145&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It amazes me, quite honestly, that GET LIT is in its fourth season. The first episode aired on my 47th birthday, and now we&#8217;re here, on the cusp of 2020, with the one hundred sixty-first episode. How&#8217;d that happen? What this means is I&#8217;m starting to get more and more repeat authors, who have new [&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":[613,14,23,58,31,20,24,16,83,13,170,612],"class_list":{"0":"post-898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-after-the-bloom","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-cfmu","10":"tag-dundurn-press","11":"tag-fiction","12":"tag-get-lit","13":"tag-hamilton","14":"tag-jamie-tennant","15":"tag-leslie-shimotakahara","16":"tag-literature","17":"tag-mcmaster-university","18":"tag-red-oblivion","19":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}