{"id":207,"date":"2008-08-06T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2008\/08\/06\/what-character-would-you-want-in-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T08:30:00","slug":"what-character-would-you-want-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"What Character Would You Want in the White House?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Let’s escape reality for a moment, shall we, and envision a fictional future country with fictional prosperity for all, at the helm of which would be… a fictional book character. In my fictional dream that character would probably be Atticus Finch, as it would perhaps for the person who created this t-shirt at right on Café Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As election fervor is heating up, some stores are asking kids to cast votes in the "Send a Character to Washington" vein, among them Hicklebee’s<\/a> in San Jose, Calif., whose ballot features quite an interesting mix of Character Candidates! Each of the candidates or a representative for them recently spoke at Hicklebee’s about their qualifications for the post of President and I’ve linked to their (brief) now-on-YouTube speeches here:<\/p>\n

Miss Rumphius<\/a> of Miss Rumphius
<\/em>Sweetness<\/a> of Saving Sweetness
<\/em>Dex<\/a> of Dex: The Heart of a Hero<\/em>
Seth Sorenson<\/a> of Fablehaven
<\/em>Kate Wetherall<\/a> of The Mysterious Benedict Society
<\/em>Will Knight<\/a> of Storm: The Infinity Code<\/em>
Ella<\/a> of Ella Enchanted
<\/em>Violet<\/a> of A Series of Unfortunate Events
Mercy Watson<\/a> of Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride
<\/em>Commander Toad<\/a> of Commander Toad
<\/em>Stanley<\/a> of Flat Stanley
<\/em>Clementine<\/a> of Clementine
<\/em>Annie<\/a> of The Magic Tree House series
Liza Lou<\/a> of Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp
<\/em>Martha<\/a> of George and Martha<\/em>
Minnie<\/a> of the Minnie & Moo series
The Pigeon<\/a> of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!<\/em>
Chester<\/a> of Chester<\/em>
Horton<\/a> of Horton Hears a Who<\/p>\n

<\/em>You can also watch the candidates engage in a group debate<\/a> and head to Hicklebee’s on August 14th to cast your final vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not close enough to San Jose to make such a trip, or not interested in these particular candidates? No matter. Make a pitch HERE for the fictional book character you’d most like to see leading our nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s escape reality for a moment, shall we, and envision a fictional future country with fictional prosperity for all, at the helm of which would be… a fictional book character. In my fictional dream that character would probably be Atticus Finch, as it would perhaps for the person who created this t-shirt at right on Café […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","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\/207","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}