{"id":151,"date":"2008-07-14T00:19:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T07:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specfic.philsites.net\/2008\/07\/14\/how-to-win-the-fully-booked-graphicfiction-awards\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T00:19:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T07:19:43","slug":"how-to-win-the-fully-booked-graphicfiction-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/2008\/07\/14\/how-to-win-the-fully-booked-graphicfiction-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Win the Fully Booked Graphic\/Fiction Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotten from <a href=\"http:\/\/philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com\">Kenneth Yu<\/a>, who got it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azraelsmerryland.blogspot.com\/\">Azrael<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tals Diaz, journalist and marketing manager of Fully Booked, explains the rationale for the awards: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Neil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theme is Filipino unrealism. It has to have that unique sense of Filipino-ness about it. We do have a rich tradition of Filipino mythology and folklore that we hardly explore in our literature. If you look at our literature right now, a lot of it is very realistic. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what Neil Gaiman wanted us to veer away from with this contest.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Romulo adds, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like the stuff that he got from here\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe realist novels that he read, he liked. He just wanted to explore if we had other things. As for fantasy, he thought we could go beyond juvenile literature and explore what he thinks is an integral part of our culture\u00e2\u20ac\u201dscience fiction, horror or speculative fiction. It really is how you weave the genre into Filipino heritage.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/popazrael.multiply.com\/journal\/item\/1556\/How_not_to_be_the_next_Neil_Gaiman_-_Win_his_GraphicFiction_Awards_by_being_truly_...\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotten from Kenneth Yu, who got it from Azrael: Tals Diaz, journalist and marketing manager of Fully Booked, explains the rationale for the awards: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Neil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theme is Filipino unrealism. It has to have that unique sense of Filipino-ness about it. We do have a rich tradition of Filipino mythology and folklore that we hardly explore [&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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philsites.net\/specfic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}