{"id":273,"date":"2008-02-20T12:40:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T17:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/we-have-liftoff-the-boxcar-kid-is-released\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T14:32:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T19:32:41","slug":"we-have-liftoff-the-boxcar-kid-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/we-have-liftoff-the-boxcar-kid-is-released\/","title":{"rendered":"We have liftoff &#8211; The Boxcar Kid is released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/archebooks.com\/BookIDX\/Indexes\/History\/BCK\/BCKDesc.htm\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/blog\/2008\/boxcarkid_archebooks.jpg?w=656\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My pop&#8217;s been working his tail off on his first novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/archebooks.com\/BookIDX\/Indexes\/History\/BCK\/BCKDesc.htm\">The Boxcar Kid<\/a>, for a few years now, and yesterday it hit the stores!  It&#8217;s on the front page of <a href=\"http:\/\/archebooks.com\/\">his publisher&#8217;s site<\/a> right now.  This is BIG NEWS, we&#8217;re all so excited and proud of ya, pop!  :>  <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s full info at <a href=\"http:\/\/archebooks.com\/BookIDX\/Indexes\/History\/BCK\/BCKDesc.htm\">the publisher&#8217;s page<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve been hosting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxcarkid.com\">website<\/a> for it for a while now, too.  I&#8217;ll try to update this as more news rolls in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Andrea is a librarian at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\">goodreads<\/a> (my lovely nerdy girl!  I&#8217;m married to a librarian, how sexy is THAT?!  :P).  She <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/2907745.The_Boxcar_Kid\">added the book<\/a> there, so you can rate and discuss it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pop&#8217;s been working his tail off on his first novel, The Boxcar Kid, for a few years now, and yesterday it hit the stores! It&#8217;s on the front page of his publisher&#8217;s site right now. This is BIG NEWS, we&#8217;re all so excited and proud of ya, pop! :> There&#8217;s full info at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/we-have-liftoff-the-boxcar-kid-is-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We have liftoff &#8211; The Boxcar Kid is released!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,13,3,2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-my-rowdy-friends","category-books","category-consumption","category-daily-life","category-production"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-4p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":227,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/pop-has-a-publisher\/","url_meta":{"origin":273,"position":0},"title":"Pop has a publisher!","author":"m","date":"February 9, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is BIG news! My pop has gotten to the point where he's pretty happy with the polish he's applied to his first novel, The Boxcar Kid. He's been working hard on it for quite some time now, and he has serialized it into three separate books. He's taken the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/consumption\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2606,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2018\/erik-crashed-in-raleigh\/","url_meta":{"origin":273,"position":1},"title":"Erik crashed in Raleigh","author":"m","date":"May 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All My Rowdy Friends&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All My Rowdy Friends","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_01606752231249608657583.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_01606752231249608657583.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_01606752231249608657583.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_01606752231249608657583.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":298,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2008\/the-ultimate-practical-joke-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":273,"position":2},"title":"The Ultimate Practical Joke Site","author":"m","date":"July 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The world's greatest practical joke site was created recently. 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