{"id":618,"date":"2017-03-21T23:34:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T03:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2017-03-21T23:34:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T03:34:59","slug":"rita-called-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/rita-called-again\/","title":{"rendered":"RITA called&#8230;again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around this time last year, I posted that\u00a0<em>Mistletoe Justice<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>was nominated for a RITA\u00a9 award. (The RITA is like the Oscars of romance writing.) Well, it happened again. I headed off to Zumba this morning, and when I came back out to the car and got my phone out of the glove box, I had a missed call from California. I knew it was announcement day, so with shaking hands, I redialed the number. Tessa Dare answered and informed me that\u00a0<em>Trust My Heart<\/em> is a RITA finalist.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-384 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Trust-My-Heart-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Trust-My-Heart-cover.jpg 334w, https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Trust-My-Heart-cover-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have to say, the second time is as exciting as the first. As soon as I hung up from talking to Tessa, I called my husband. He answered without looking at who was calling. Once he figured out who the crazy woman was screaming into the phone, he was excited, too.<\/p>\n<p>As congratulations have been pouring in throughout the day via Facebook, Twitter and email, I&#8217;ve been walking on air. The excitement hangs on for quite a while. Tomorrow, though, I&#8217;ll get my head out of the clouds and get back to writing.<\/p>\n<p>The awards ceremony will be held at the Romance Writers of America Conference in July. This year it&#8217;s in Orlando, about 45 minutes from home, so I don&#8217;t even have to fly. And hubby will get to attend. It&#8217;s a pretty formal affair, which means I get to shop for another gown. Woohoo!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around this time last year, I posted that\u00a0Mistletoe Justice\u00a0was nominated for a RITA\u00a9 award. (The RITA is like the Oscars of romance writing.) Well, it happened again. I headed off to Zumba this morning, and when I came back out to the car and got my phone out of the glove box, I had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}