{"id":2087,"date":"2009-08-11T02:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2009-08-08T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T19:24:12","slug":"welcome-guest-blogger-shelli-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/welcome-guest-blogger-shelli-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Guest Blogger Shelli Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"

MS. INDEPENDENT?\"stevens_pic\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m skipping the writer talk and just going for the random topic right now.<\/p>\n

So growing up I was a Girl Scout. Like, top seller of cookies in my district even one year. (Woot, go me!) I went camping with the girls and learned some basic skills to survive. I\u2019d like to think I took those with me into adulthood. Apparently, though, my big brother doesn\u2019t agree.<\/p>\n

\"stevens_take_cover\"Here\u2019s the situation. I\u2019m a single mom and I\u2019m taking my daughter camping (as you’re reading this post actually!) for the first time.\u00a0 Alone! Now big brother (and I have 3 bros!) is completely worried that I\u2019m incapable of doing this. That I couldn\u2019t possibly go camping…without a man. <\/em><\/p>\n

Squeeze me? Pardon? What\u2019s the year again? \u00a0Okay, maybe I need a guy for some things (like putting together a toddler bed\u2014I swear I nearly punched a hole in the wall!), but seriously I can camp. And I\u2019m bringing in backup in the form of my teenage niece, who also happens to be the daughter of the nagging brother. Yup, I\u2019m surprised he\u2019s letting her go with me.<\/p>\n

I mean, sure, I\u2019d love a guy to call my own someday. To be the hero I write about in my books. But I guess I\u2019ve just been single for so long that it doesn\u2019t occur to me to let being manless stop me from doing things. Like camping.<\/p>\n

So what do you think? Am I being stupid, or just fine for going manless camping? I won\u2019t be here to reply to everyone, but I\u2019ll reply when I return in a couple days! But leave a comment and you\u2019ll be entered to win my book TAKE ME<\/strong>. Cindy will draw a winner.<\/p>\n

Warning<\/strong>: contest becomes void if Shelli and children are eaten by bears while putting on lipgloss in the forest, thus proving stupid to be the answer.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Please leave a comment to enter to win Shelli’s new release, TAKE ME<\/strong>. Entries accepted until midnight PST.<\/p>\n

To read Shelli’s bio and the back cover blurb for TAKE ME<\/strong>, please see yesterday’s post.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Shelli and her books, you can visit her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MS. INDEPENDENT? I\u2019m skipping the writer talk and just going for the random topic right now. So growing up I was a Girl Scout. Like, top seller of cookies in my district even one year. (Woot, go me!) I went camping with the girls and learned some basic skills to survive. I\u2019d like to think… Continue reading Welcome Guest Blogger Shelli Stevens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-give-aways","category-guest-bloggers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}