{"id":2960,"date":"2019-01-20T18:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2019-01-20T18:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:22:32","slug":"post-on-the-liars-league-site-on-cassandra-darke-by-posy-simmonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=2960","title":{"rendered":"Post on the Liars&#8217; League Site on Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the run-up to the Christmas Liars&#8217; League event, authors were asked to nominate some of their favourite seasonal stories &#8212; and to write a short blog on why they were chosen.<\/p>\n<p>I did a piece, which was published on the Liars&#8217; League website in December. It&#8217;s Posy Simmonds&#8217; latest graphic novel,\u00a0<em>Cassandra Darke.\u00a0<\/em>I&#8217;ve loved Posy&#8217;s work for a long time &#8212; ever since her chronicling in of the Weber family&#8217;s attempts to live a politically correct existence (in the good old days when the phrase was more innocent and not politically charged).<\/p>\n<p>The post can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liarsleague.com\/liars_league\/2018\/12\/my-favourite-christmas-story-mike-clarke-on-posy-simmondss-cassandra-darke.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.liarsleague.com\/liars_league\/2018\/12\/my-favourite-christmas-story-mike-clarke-on-posy-simmondss-cassandra-darke.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the run-up to the Christmas Liars&#8217; League event, authors were asked to nominate some of their favourite seasonal stories &#8212; and to write a short blog on why they were chosen. I did a piece, which was published on the Liars&#8217; League website in December. It&#8217;s Posy Simmonds&#8217; latest graphic novel,\u00a0Cassandra Darke.\u00a0I&#8217;ve loved Posy&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=2960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Post on the Liars&#8217; League Site on Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[1313,1076,1312],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-influences-2","tag-cassandra-darke","tag-liars-league","tag-posy-simmonds"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}