{"id":3196,"date":"2013-11-04T17:23:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/Discover-Great-New-Writers\/quot-I-d-Been-Thinking-About-This-Book-for-Years-Before-I-First\/ba-p\/11707"},"modified":"2013-11-04T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T17:23:52","slug":"id-been-thinking-about-this-book-for-years-before-i-first-put-pen-to-paper-a-qa-with-jo-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/04\/id-been-thinking-about-this-book-for-years-before-i-first-put-pen-to-paper-a-qa-with-jo-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;d Been Thinking About This Book for Years Before I First Put Pen to Paper&#8221;: A Q&#038;A with Jo Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Perfect for Austenites and <em>Downton Abbey<\/em> fans, this smart, sweet-tempered, and entirely engaging story puts the household staff of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/pride-and-prejudice-jane-austen\/1116668146?ean=9781593082017\" ><em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/a> front and center. Jo Baker discusses her own love of Jane Austen&rsquo;s books, the influence of &#8220;that English class thing&#8221; (and the scene from <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> that jumpstarted the writing of <strong><em>Longbourn<\/em><\/strong>), and writing about characters that kept interesting (and surprising her), among other things, with Discover Great New Writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Perfect for Austenites and Downton Abbey fans, this smart, sweet-tempered, and entirely engaging story puts the household staff of Pride and Prejudice front and center. Jo Baker discusses her own love of Jane Austen&rsquo;s books, the influence o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-contributed-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}