{"id":472,"date":"2007-12-24T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2007\/12\/24\/walk-two-moons-in-their-holiday-moccasins\/"},"modified":"2007-12-24T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T09:30:00","slug":"walk-two-moons-in-their-holiday-moccasins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Walk Two Moons in Their Holiday Moccasins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If, like the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/article3063679.ece\" rel=\"noopener\">brilliant<\/a> but curmudgeonly <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/arts\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=YXIAYYW0CO2PHQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=\/arts\/2007\/12\/24\/bobriggs124.xml&amp;page=1\" rel=\"noopener\">Raymond Briggs<\/a>, you would just as soon skip over the coming week as have to deal with any holiday-associated stress, you might want to try dissociating for a few days, slipping into the shoes of, say, the star of your favorite novel! Begin by asking yourself the same question <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/30\/AR2007113000137.html\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a> recently posed to several well-known authors: &quot;IF YOU COULD SPEND A HOLIDAY WEEK AS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER, WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE AND WHY?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Just think how entertained your in-laws will be if you start speaking to them in the voice of&nbsp;Huck Finn, Hermione Granger, Despereaux Tilling, or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk\/livingarchive\/title.php?id=34\" rel=\"noopener\">Father Christmas<\/a> (&quot;blooming Christmas, blooming snow, blooming chimneys, blooming soot&quot;)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, like the brilliant but curmudgeonly Raymond Briggs, you would just as soon skip over the coming week as have to deal with any holiday-associated stress, you might want to try dissociating for a few days, slipping into the shoes of, say, the star of your favorite novel! Begin by asking yourself the same question [&hellip;]<\/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-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}