{"id":8690,"date":"2009-09-11T14:36:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T21:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2009-09-11T14:36:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T21:36:44","slug":"so-long-and-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8690","title":{"rendered":"so long, and thanks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"postavatar\" src=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/icons\/alaya.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"so-long-and-thanks\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As I am about to embark on my Great West Coast Adventure (starting with a three day cross-country train to Vancouver, would you believe it), I must bid farewell to the ABW. It&#8217;s been an educational experience, to say the least. I don&#8217;t know if I really have the constitution for regular blogging, but it was a privilege to get to write about issues that are important to me, and engage with all sorts of readers and fans and curious individuals about them. <\/p>\n<p>If you have found this blog (and my posts about the POC!Bechdel test and <i>Supernatural<\/i>) though external links, a few things of note. <i><strong>I am not the Angry Black Woman<\/strong><\/i>. The Angry Black Woman is a friend of mine and asked me to guest post on her blog. I was happy to do so and I&#8217;m grateful to her for giving me this opportunity. My name is Alaya Dawn Johnson, I&#8217;m a writer of speculative fiction, and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alayadawnjohnson.com\">find out more about me on my website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be based out in LA, you can catch up with me on October 4th at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westhollywoodbookfair.org\/\">West Hollywood Book Fair<\/a>, where I will be presenting on an all-star panel about vampire fiction (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Moonshine-Novel-Alaya-Johnson\/dp\/031256547X\/?tag=thedivapage\">my book MOONSHINE<\/a>, which is coming out in February, is a 1920s vampire novel).<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise and in any case, my thanks for all your thoughts, opinions and perspectives and maybe we&#8217;ll see each other again later.<\/p>\n<p><h4>And now a word from our sponsor&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><!-- Beginning of Project Wonderful ad code: --><br \/>\n<!-- Ad box ID: 38358 --><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/nojs.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" colspan=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/advertisehere.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\">Your ad could be here, right now.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" valign=\"top\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Project Wonderful ad code. --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/2009\/09\/11\/so-long-and-thanks\/\">so long, and thanks!<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/abwblog?a=xE2vJqxeuKQ:Lx2kKXwoDzY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/abwblog?i=xE2vJqxeuKQ:Lx2kKXwoDzY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/abwblog?a=xE2vJqxeuKQ:Lx2kKXwoDzY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/abwblog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/abwblog?a=xE2vJqxeuKQ:Lx2kKXwoDzY:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/abwblog?i=xE2vJqxeuKQ:Lx2kKXwoDzY:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/abwblog?a=xE2vJqxeuKQ:Lx2kKXwoDzY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/abwblog?i=xE2vJqxeuKQ:Lx2kKXwoDzY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/abwblog?a=xE2vJqxeuKQ:Lx2kKXwoDzY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/abwblog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/abwblog\/~4\/xE2vJqxeuKQ\" height=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"postavatar\" src=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/icons\/alaya.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"so-long-and-thanks\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nAs I am about to embark on my Great West Coast Adventure (starting with a three day cross-country train to Vancouver, would you believe it), I must bid farewell to the ABW. It&#8217;s been an educational experience, to say the least. I don&#8217;t know if I really have the constitution for regular blogging, but it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><h4>And now a word from our sponsor&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><!-- Beginning of Project Wonderful ad code: --><br \/>\n<!-- Ad box ID: 38358 --><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/nojs.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" colspan=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/advertisehere.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">Your ad could be here, right now.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" valign=\"top\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" style=\"3px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Project Wonderful ad code. --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/2009\/09\/11\/so-long-and-thanks\/\">so long, and thanks!<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}