{"id":11265,"date":"2016-11-18T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=11265"},"modified":"2016-11-18T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:39:54","slug":"an-evening-with-anna-kendrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/an-evening-with-anna-kendrick\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening With Anna Kendrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/an-evening-with-anna-kendrick\/annak\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11269\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11269\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/annak.jpg\" alt=\"annak\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/annak.jpg 504w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/annak-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a>Last night, I headed out to Naperville to pick up a signed book and a Q&amp;A with Anna Kendrick for her new tome, <em>Scrappy Little Nobody<\/em>. \u00a0Greta Johnsen, co-host of the WBEZ&#8217;s Nerdette Podcast, was on hand to moderate the evening\u2019s festivities, in which Kendrick charmed the audience with tales from the book and how to strive for success after &#8220;making it&#8221;. \u00a0The two went back and forth for about an hour, with Kendrick apologizing to Jesus for cursing in the church where the event took place.<\/p>\n<p>This was my second\u00a0experience with a signing run through Anderson\u2019s Bookshop, and the first since Adam Carolla came to town in <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/an-evening-with-the-aceman\/\">2014<\/a>. \u00a0Other than paying full retail for the book and a small screw up in ordering tickets which led to me buying the last ticket and attending alone, everything ran smoothly and was worth the effort of heading out to the western suburbs after work. \u00a0I\u2019ll continue to keep an eye out to see if they have anyone else interesting coming through town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I headed out to Naperville to pick up a signed book and a Q&amp;A with Anna Kendrick for her new tome, Scrappy Little Nobody. \u00a0Greta Johnsen, co-host of the WBEZ&#8217;s Nerdette Podcast, was on hand to moderate the evening\u2019s festivities, in which Kendrick charmed the audience with tales from the book and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[297,4751,7010,7012,7014,7011,7013],"class_list":["post-11265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-adam-carolla","tag-andersons-bookshop","tag-anna-kendrick","tag-greta-johnsen","tag-nerdette-podcast","tag-scrappy-little-nobody","tag-wbez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11272,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions\/11272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}