{"id":21,"date":"2005-08-15T21:25:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T01:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2005-08-15T21:30:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T01:30:58","slug":"fan-mail-boildown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Fan Mail Boildown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, <i>Muse<\/i>&#8216;s editor-in-chief (She Who Must Not Be Named) sends around a packet of recent letters to the magazine for her minions to read. We can&#8217;t reprint them here, because some of them might be bound for the <i>Muse<\/i> Mail page, but we can summarize what they say. Here&#8217;s the most recent batch:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who&#8217;s writing<\/strong>: 8 girls, 4 boys, 1 male Elf, and 1 male mixed-breed dog<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ages<\/strong>, where specified: 8, 10, 11, 12 (two writers), 13 (four writers), 15, 17, 18<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where they live<\/strong>: California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Washington, D.C., and Scotland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Muses<\/strong>, where specified: Kokopelli (4); Crraw tied with Kokopelli (1); Urania, Bo (1 each)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Least favorite Muses<\/strong>: Aeiou, Pwt<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite things from the magazine<\/strong>: &#8220;Baffled Brain&#8221; issue, bonobos, LOTR issue, Notscape, &#8220;The Incredible Upside-Downs&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Dislikes<\/strong>: Self-esteem issue; reference to evolution in the Bonobo article<\/p>\n<p><strong>Requests<\/strong>: pen-pal service; where Devil is; articles on band instruments, how CDs work, music piracy, invention of the telephone, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings (again?!), rugby, Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick peek inside <i>Muse<\/i>&#8216;s mailbag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}