{"id":2261,"date":"2013-04-25T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2013-04-26T08:32:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:32:53","slug":"cassie-scot-in-living-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"Cassie Scot in Living Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1942\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1942\" alt=\"CassieScot_med\" src=\"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CassieScot_med.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CassieScot_med.jpg 438w, https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CassieScot_med-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The outfit you see Cassie wearing on the cover is one I suggested to the artist. I found it on <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.nordstrom.com\/s\/eight-sixty-tie-front-tee-online-exclusive\/3415339?contextualcategoryid=0&#038;fashionColor=RIVIERA%20BLUE&#038;origin=category&#038;resultback=0\" target=\"_blank\">Nordstrom&#8217;s <\/a>website, and knew it was the sort of thing Cassie would choose to wear &#8212; stylish and colorful. (The artist changed the color to better suit the picture.)<\/p>\n<p>In the book, Cassie says she dresses &#8220;in living color.&#8221; She avoids black like the plague and thinks the color washes some people out. <\/p>\n<p>At the risk of offending millions of black-clad Americans, I agree with her. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I used to wear black all the time (see my author photo). It&#8217;s not even a terrible color on me, although I prefer brighter, bolder, and more vivid colors now. Then a few years ago, just before I started writing about Cassie, I realized I was making a mistake. I was wearing black for all the wrong reasons:<\/p>\n<p>Black is flattering. Black makes you look thinner. Black is classic. Black looks good on everyone&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>I was hiding behind it! That&#8217;s no reason to embrace a particular style. <\/p>\n<p>Personal style is just that of course &#8212; personal. But I don&#8217;t think I was choosing a style so much as accepting it as my lot in life. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This new self-discovery got transferred to the character I was working on at the time, hence Cassie and color. She paints her room black. But the reason for that is more a book two revelation. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outfit you see Cassie wearing on the cover is one I suggested to the artist. I found it on Nordstrom&#8217;s website, and knew it was the sort of thing Cassie would choose to wear &#8212; stylish and colorful. (The artist changed the color to better suit the picture.) In the book, Cassie says she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,54],"tags":[640,69,101,98,81,102,19,97,99,100,80],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cassie-scot","category-my-writing","tag-cassie-scot","tag-christine-amsden","tag-fashion","tag-magic","tag-mystery","tag-nordstrom","tag-romance","tag-sorcerers","tag-twilight-times","tag-underdog","tag-urban-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}