{"id":99,"date":"2016-01-16T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T14:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T15:35:28","slug":"the-girl-who-wanted-to-be-liked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"The Girl Who Wanted to Be Liked"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some writers enter the field in adulthood. Not so for me. Both of my parents came out of college with English degrees, and our house was filled with books. I learned to read at four (and did such a good job my kindergarten teacher brought me to read to my brother’s second-grade class — my first triumph!). After that, I spent long hours of my childhood lost in fantasy worlds.<\/p>\n

I started writing in elementary school too, so by the time I hit ninth grade and was told to write a children’s book, I was ready to go. I thought you might enjoy this early attempt, which showcases a common thread that remains in my stories to this day — the outsider.<\/p>\n

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My adult literary analysis — good story arc, but she needs to lose more than her hair at the end and there’s too much wording repetition. Oh well, what can I say — I was only 13!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some writers enter the field in adulthood. Not so for me. Both of my parents came out of college with English degrees, and our house was filled with books. I learned to read at four (and did such a good job my kindergarten teacher brought me to read to my brother’s second-grade class — my […]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,38],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-fantasy-and-romance-books","category-the-growth-of-an-author","tag-free-stories","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}