{"id":76,"date":"2007-01-19T19:44:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T23:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/01\/19\/jenna-bush-author\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T20:11:40","slug":"jenna-bush-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/01\/19\/jenna-bush-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Bush, Author? (Updated re Today Show Gig)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move sure to aggravate unagented (and poorly agented) authors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/politics\/washingtonwhispers\/070119\/first_twin_jenna_shops_a_book.htm\">Jenna Bush has scored a high-powered literary agent &#8212; Robert Barnett.<\/a>\u00a0 So, what&#8217;s the subject of Jenna&#8217;s masterpiece?\u00a0\u00a0Barnett has been shopping her &#8220;young-adult book based on the former grade school teacher&#8217;s experiences with charity causes in Latin America&#8221; to New York publishers.\u00a0 Oh, goody!\u00a0\u00a0(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/politics\/washingtonwhispers\/070119\/first_twin_jenna_shops_a_book.htm\">PoliticalWire<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Bush, Author?<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A Bush twin (not Barb, but the other)<br \/>\nIs shopping a kid&#8217;s book. Oh, brother!<br \/>\nCan Jenna Bush write?<br \/>\nDo her verbal skills bite?<br \/>\nLet us hope she takes after her mother.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><b>Update 9\/31\/09:<\/b> Incoherent quote of the day from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20301340,00.html\">Jenna Bush Hager<\/a>, talking about her new gig as a Today Show correspondent: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It wasn&#8217;t something I&#8217;d always dreamed to do. But I think one of the most important things in life is to be open-minded and to be open-minded for change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope somebody else writes her scripts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move sure to aggravate unagented (and poorly agented) authors, Jenna Bush has scored a high-powered literary agent &#8212; Robert Barnett.\u00a0 So, what&#8217;s the subject of Jenna&#8217;s masterpiece?\u00a0\u00a0Barnett has been shopping her &#8220;young-adult book based on the former grade school teacher&#8217;s experiences with charity causes in Latin America&#8221; to New York publishers.\u00a0 Oh, goody!\u00a0\u00a0(Via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,64,58,8,26,47,17],"tags":[861,862,2782,860,863,864,865,866],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-bush-twins","category-general-humor","category-george-bush","category-media-satire","category-non-political-humor","category-white-house","tag-author-humor","tag-book-humor","tag-bush-twins","tag-jenna-bush-hager","tag-literary-agent","tag-publishing-satire","tag-robert-barnett","tag-today-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}