{"id":4616,"date":"2020-09-17T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2020-09-16T16:11:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T20:11:48","slug":"trans-author-makes-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4616","title":{"rendered":"Trans author makes history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Young Adult author Aiden Thomas has become the first openly trans writer to have a trans themed fiction book make the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestseller list. Thomas&#8217; debut novel <em>Cemetery Boys<\/em> is now on the young adult hardcover list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/trans-author-cemetery-boys-nyt-bestseller\">https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/trans-author-cemetery-boys-nyt-bestseller<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/logoonline.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:s3.amazonaws.com\/articles.newnownext.com-production\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/aiden-thomas_high-res-1600264360-1600264363.jpeg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Adult author Aiden Thomas has become the first openly trans writer to have a trans themed fiction book make the New York Times bestseller list. Thomas&#8217; debut novel Cemetery Boys is now on the young adult hardcover list. https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/trans-author-cemetery-boys-nyt-bestseller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":4621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[817,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}