{"id":15679,"date":"2020-01-15T06:06:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T12:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15679"},"modified":"2020-01-14T19:20:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T01:20:59","slug":"book-2-of-52-embrace-your-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/book-2-of-52-embrace-your-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 2 (of 52) &#8211; Embrace Your Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15685\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/embraceyourweird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15685\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15685\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/embraceyourweird.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/embraceyourweird.jpg 350w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/embraceyourweird-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears And Unleash Creativity &#8211; Felicia Day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Felicia Day returns with <em>Embrace Your Weird<\/em>, a self help book aimed at getting readers to overcome their fears about being creative and completing something (anything).\u00a0 Aside from Day&#8217;s personal anecdotes and self-learned wisdom, she provides numerous exercises intended to nurture each reader&#8217;s unique, creative voice. If I was looking to expand my creative activities, I could see myself partaking of the activities and having them make a difference in my ability to move forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/feliciaday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15687\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/feliciaday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/feliciaday.jpg 378w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/feliciaday-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More important than the book itself was the opportunity meet Felicia Day at an event put on by the good folks at Anderson&#8217;s Bookshop.\u00a0 Unlike the <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/an-evening-with-the-aceman\/\">previous<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/an-evening-with-anna-kendrick\/\">events<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/book-12-of-52-ill-be-gone-in-the-dark\/\">they&#8217;ve<\/a> put on that I&#8217;ve attended, this one included the opportunity for a photo with the author.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been a fan of Day&#8217;s since her appearances as one of the potential slayers in the final season of <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>, so getting the opportunity to shake her hand and exchange some small talk in exchange for a photo was well worth the drive out to Naperville on a rainy Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felicia Day returns with Embrace Your Weird, a self help book aimed at getting readers to overcome their fears about being creative and completing something (anything).\u00a0 Aside from Day&#8217;s personal anecdotes and self-learned wisdom, she provides numerous exercises intended to nurture each reader&#8217;s unique, creative voice. If I was looking to expand my creative activities, [&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":[4751,106,8685,5795],"class_list":["post-15679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-andersons-bookshop","tag-buffy","tag-embrace-your-weird","tag-felicia-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15689,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679\/revisions\/15689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}