{"id":733,"date":"2012-10-15T13:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicebyrd.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2012-10-15T13:28:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:28:23","slug":"transcript-savannah-from-savannah-by-denise-hildreth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/transcript-savannah-from-savannah-by-denise-hildreth\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript: Savannah from Savannah by Denise Hildreth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Savannah from Savannah<\/em> is a fun, first-novel by Denise Hildreth.\u00a0 Nancy Drew-style sleuthing and early Erma Bombeck writing make Savannah Phillips from Savannah, Georgia the perfect parody of the newspaper columnist she aspires to be.\u00a0 Savannah, na\u00efve yet confident, returns to her hometown after graduating with a masters degree in journalism, primarily to prove something to her mother, Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Savannah calls her mother, the former Miss Georgia and the Martha Stewart of Savannah\u2014Vicky, much to Victoria\u2019s chagrin.\u00a0 Ironically, Savannah moves back into her parent\u2019s home and launches a crusade to right the wrongs of the antiquated lifestyle she feels her mother represents\u2014namely beauty pageants.<\/p>\n<p><em>Savannah from Savannah <\/em>is dedicated to those who have ever grieved the loss of a dream, and that\u2019s pretty much everybody who\u2019s old enough to have had a dream in the first place.\u00a0 Savannah Phillips learns the hard way, which is the only way most of us ever learn, that everyone dreams of touching the world with something of eternal value.\u00a0 How like God to redeem loss and make it a part of our greater destiny!<\/p>\n<p>Denise Hildreth follows her heroine through two succeeding novels.\u00a0 The<em> Savannah Series <\/em>is a part of the young-adult fiction genre, commonly called \u201cChristian chick-lit\u201d that has become a staple for female, twenty-something\u2019s.\u00a0 Its humorous, first-person, stream-of-conscience style makes <em>Savannah <\/em>easy to read and easier to love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savannah from Savannah is a fun, first-novel by Denise Hildreth.\u00a0 Nancy Drew-style sleuthing and early Erma Bombeck writing make Savannah Phillips from Savannah, Georgia the perfect parody of the newspaper columnist she aspires to be.\u00a0 Savannah, na\u00efve yet confident, returns to her hometown after graduating with a masters degree in journalism, primarily to prove something [&hellip;]&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/transcript-savannah-from-savannah-by-denise-hildreth\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}