{"id":1786,"date":"2010-08-09T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2010-08-09T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T10:00:44","slug":"more-book-culture-mash-ups-jane-austen-fight-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Book Culture Mash-Up: Jane Austen Fight Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A tidbit for a Monday morning: this very funny video re-imagining the world of Jane Austen if it included Fight Club. I am a sucker for a good mash-up (but there are very few really well-executed ones).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r2PM0om2El8&amp;feature=related\">Jane Austen Fight Club<\/a><br \/>\nWhat children&#8217;s book mash-ups would you like to see? I&#8217;m thinking <em>Babe the Gallant Pig<\/em> \/ <em>Top Chef<\/em>. (Oh no I di&#8217;n&#8217;t!) Or how about <em>Flowers for Algernon<\/em>, where Charley meets <em>The Runaway Dolls<\/em>? (Hey, I never said they were <em>good<\/em> ideas.) Josie suggests <em>Horton Hears a Who<\/em> and Machiavelli&#8217;s <em>The Prince<\/em>.<br \/>\nWhat should the next YouTube book mash-up blockbuster be, hmm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tidbit for a Monday morning: this very funny video re-imagining the world of Jane Austen if it included Fight Club. I am a sucker for a good mash-up (but there are very few really well-executed ones). Jane Austen Fight Club What children&rsquo;s book mash-ups would you like to see? I&rsquo;m thinking Babe the Gallant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}