{"id":371,"date":"2008-03-05T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=371"},"modified":"2008-05-15T09:40:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T14:40:26","slug":"a-kooky-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2008\/03\/05\/a-kooky-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kooky Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry dear readers, I&#8217;m still on my CherryPop kick. I had a rather odd idea for this whole thing the night before last. Just as I was turning off my bedside lamp to go to sleep, the idea that maybe I should buy a domain for the CherryPop character popped in my head. I discussed the merits of it with myself and decided I&#8217;d do it in the morning. I thought I would use the domain to maybe flesh out the character, keep a journal of my progress as I write this thing &#8211; all that good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But later that day, I thought, wouldn&#8217;t it be fun to put a blog on the new site and post as the character? A sort of online extension of CherryPop (ohmygod Steph quit saying CherryPop) that potential readers of the book could come to and learn more about the character. It could become a viral marketing thing I could use when it&#8217;s done. It could be a way for me to inhabit the character, much like an actor does, so I can make her and her weird world believable.<\/p>\n<p>And it has the added bonus of being something that will motivate me if I find my inertia on this waning. BUT I don&#8217;t see that happening this time. I&#8217;m too excited about this \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Sooooo without further blather, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherrypopmcgee.com\">here&#8217;s CherryPop&#8217;s blog<\/a>. Just a post or two right now, remember I just started it yesterday \ud83d\ude42 But I&#8217;m planning to write as her quite frequently as well as continue to add to <a href=\"http:\/\/ficlets.com\/stories\/22722\">the ficlet series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is gonna be fun \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry dear readers, I&#8217;m still on my CherryPop kick. I had a rather odd idea for this whole thing the night before last. Just as I was turning off my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}