{"id":247,"date":"2005-05-23T10:35:01","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T18:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/05\/gossip_girl.html"},"modified":"2005-05-23T10:35:01","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T18:35:01","slug":"gossip_girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/gossip_girl.html","title":{"rendered":"Gossip Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nymetro.com\/nymetro\/arts\/books\/12058\/index.html\">profiles the author of our favorite books about super-obnoxious, hyper-privileged Upper East Side teens<\/a>. We have several Gossip Girls and anxiously await the latest.<\/p>\n<p>This part was great:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>From the beginning, Von Ziegesar added her own raw and distinctive touches, not all of which went over with Little, Brown. In Gossip Girl No. 1, Serena falls serendipitously into modeling and\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlike Carrie Bradshaw\u00e2\u20ac\u201dends up pictured in bus ads all over Manhattan. However, unlike Carrie, the shots (at least in Von Ziegesar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s initial draft) were artistic close-ups of her anus\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpart of a series of shocking celebrity portraits. Little, Brown suggested Von Ziegesar substitute a belly button. She chose a compromise that works hilariously well\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe orifice is itself a mystery, even to Blair, who is tortured by her former friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sudden fame. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Was it her belly button? It looked like the dark pit at the center of a peach . . . Blair could never get completely away\u00e2\u20ac\u201dSerena was fucking everywhere.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Magazine profiles the author of our favorite books about super-obnoxious, hyper-privileged Upper East Side teens. We have several Gossip Girls and anxiously await the latest. This part was great: From the beginning, Von Ziegesar added her own raw and distinctive touches, not all of which went over with Little, Brown. In Gossip Girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culturalanthropological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}