{"id":5559,"date":"2012-10-07T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2012-10-07T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T17:00:59","slug":"getting-to-know-you-week-ending-october-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=5559","title":{"rendered":"Getting to Know You (Week Ending October 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The characters we invent are little extensions of ourselves. Whether we create heroes or villains, friends or foils, writers invest a bit of their own personalities into them. So, we thought it might be fun to meet some of these characters.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the &#8220;character interview&#8221; has been used by authors to help promote books. It&#8217;s a great way to talk about the book and give a feel for the writing without actually giving away an excerpt. And sometimes the characters are entertaining enough on their own to entice readers to pick up the book.<\/p>\n<p>This week, you&#8217;ll meet a variety of characters from a variety of works by our Cafe authors. Some of these interviews are straight-forward. Some are &#8230; offbeat. But we&#8217;re sure you&#8217;ll enjoy meeting these characters and the authors who created them.<\/p>\n<p>Until Next Week,<\/p>\n<p>The Cafe Management<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The characters we invent are little extensions of ourselves. Whether we create heroes or villains, friends or foils, writers invest a bit of their own personalities into them. So, we thought it might be fun to meet some of these characters. Recently, the &#8220;character interview&#8221; has been used by authors to help promote books. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanics","tag-character-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}