{"id":122,"date":"2007-12-28T23:46:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T06:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specfic.philsites.net\/2007\/12\/28\/booktopia-review-of-pgs-holiday-issue\/"},"modified":"2007-12-29T01:05:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T08:05:50","slug":"booktopia-review-of-pgs-holiday-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/2007\/12\/28\/booktopia-review-of-pgs-holiday-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Booktopia Review of PGS Holiday Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got the link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/booktopia.com.ph\/2007\/12\/28\/reading-the-special-christmas-issue-of-the-digest-of-philippine-genre-stories\/\">brief review<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/special-holiday-issue.html\">Digest of Philippine Genre Stories Holiday Issue<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/charles-tan.blogspot.com\">Charles<\/a>. The review is by Rowena Dimaguila of <a href=\"http:\/\/booktopia.com.ph\">Booktopia<\/a>, and she cites my story, &#8220;The Magic Christmas Box,&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/villageidiotsavant.blogspot.com\">Dominique Cimafranca<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Twilight of the Magi&#8221; as her favorites in the issue.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really glad somebody liked &#8220;The Magic Christmas Box&#8221;! Of course it would not have been read at all if not for <a href=\"http:\/\/philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com\">Kenneth Yu<\/a>, publisher of PGS, he of extraordinary kindness, patience and vision :)<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/booktopia.com.ph\">Booktopia<\/a>, Kenneth says <a href=\"http:\/\/philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/booktopia-pgs-holiday-issue-review.html\">they have a sale<\/a> until January 15, 2008. If you&#8217;d like to check it out, their address is <a href=\"http:\/\/booktopia.com.ph\/contact-us\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t said it aloud yet, but I really, really miss reading Pinoy spec fic in print. I can&#8217;t wait to come home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the link to a brief review of the Digest of Philippine Genre Stories Holiday Issue from Charles. The review is by Rowena Dimaguila of Booktopia, and she cites my story, &#8220;The Magic Christmas Box,&#8221; and Dominique Cimafranca&#8216;s &#8220;Twilight of the Magi&#8221; as her favorites in the issue. I&#8217;m really glad somebody liked &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippine-publications","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}