{"id":1488,"date":"2020-08-02T15:27:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T22:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/08\/02\/announcing-the-midnights-children-meander\/"},"modified":"2020-08-02T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T22:27:42","slug":"announcing-the-midnights-children-meander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/08\/02\/announcing-the-midnights-children-meander\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing: The Midnight&#8217;s Children Meander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings friends!<\/p>\n<p><strong>In brief:<\/strong><br \/>\nNew <em>Meander<\/em> starts August 16th!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which is to say:<\/strong><br \/>\nFollowing fast on the heels of the internationally acclaimed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cecilvortex.com\/the-white-noise-meander-week-1\/\">White Noise<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cecilvortex.com\/the-blind-assassin-meander-week-one\/\">Blind Assassin<\/a> Meanders, Vortex Industries is thrilled to announce the imminent arrival of <em>The Midnight&#8217;s Children Meander<\/em>, in which a hardy crew of folks like you will embark on a 9-week group-read of Salman Rushdie&#8217;s mega-ultra-Booker-Prize-winning neo-classic: <a href=\"http:\/\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Midnights-Children-Modern-Library-Novels\/dp\/0812976533\">Midnight&#8217;s Children<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A book I was really supposed to read in college and totally dropped the ball on.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1490\" style=\"width: 517px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cecilvortex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Midnights-Children-cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cecilvortex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Midnights-Children-cover-681x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"363\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1490\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My copy doesn&#8217;t have this cool cover.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Cecil (you say), I&#8217;m so excited, I&#8217;m reading too quickly and skipped over that first part. Can you remind me when this all starts?<\/strong><br \/>\nGladly! <\/p>\n<p>The <em>MCM<\/em> kicks off Sunday August 16th!<\/p>\n<p><strong>OK. But Cecil (you ask), how can I fill the time til then?<\/strong><br \/>\nWell, you could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Midnights-Children-Modern-Library-Novels\/dp\/0812976533\">buy the book<\/a> for one. And you could shout out on this here thread to let fellow Meanderers know you&#8217;re getting laced up for the trail. Also, I just started <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Umbrella_Academy_(TV_series)\">The Umbrella Academy<\/a>,<\/em> and it seems promising.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lastly, Cecil (you inquire), would you mind spelling out how this works for new folks?<\/strong><br \/>\nDelighted!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every Sunday (starting August 16th) you&#8217;ll find a new post on this here site, with the week&#8217;s target &#8212; typically 50-60 pages-ish.<\/li>\n<li>Read that section.<\/li>\n<li>When you&#8217;re done, post a comment on that week&#8217;s blog post.<\/li>\n<li>Finish the book.<\/li>\n<li>Get an exciting prize! (and you can double-bet it\u2019ll be magnetized)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rushdie is certainly beloved by some and less beloved by others, which is bound to make for a jaunty thread. This Meander for me is decades in the making, and I kinda can&#8217;t wait to get started. But wait I will&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>Questions? Give a holler! Hope to have you join our merry band.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, stay kind, and remember: &#8220;Meandering is just like dancing except without rhythm or music or things like that.&#8221;\u2122<br \/>\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings friends! In brief: New Meander starts August 16th! Which is to say: Following fast on the heels of the internationally acclaimed White Noise and Blind Assassin Meanders, Vortex Industries is thrilled to announce the imminent arrival of The Midnight&#8217;s Children Meander, in which a hardy crew of folks like you will embark on 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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}