{"id":328,"date":"2012-05-10T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T16:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2012-05-10T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T16:54:00","slug":"midwest-book-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Midwest Book Award Winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at the 22nd Midwest Book Awards celebration, <em>The Able Life of Cody Jane<\/em> was a winner! The sponsor of the awards, Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA), provided the judges comment sheets to the publishers and authors.<br \/>\nHere are comments made about <em>The Able Life of Cody Jane <\/em>by this year&#8217;s judges:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a fabulous book about a uniquely abled child growing to a young woman. She dealt with many medical challenges and lived with gusto. Inspiring and never maudlin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A rewarding read. A heartwarming story of courage, humor, and strength on the part of both mother and daughter. The topic is one that humanity longs to see&#8211;overcoming adversity and living to the fullest. She was a young heroine and the writer conveyed that with humor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excellent writing! It was hard to put this book down&#8211;it kept me up really late one night&#8211;excellent!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very descriptive without being boring&#8211;events were presented in an interesting and compelling way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Always optimistic, never victim oriented. This is a marvelous book that touched my heart! Thanks to the author for writing it. It inspires me to look past my difficulties and live fully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A well-written and inspiring story!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at the 22nd Midwest Book Awards celebration, The Able Life of Cody Jane was a winner! The sponsor of the awards, Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA), provided the judges comment sheets to the publishers and authors. Here are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/?p=328\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlycornell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}