{"id":231,"date":"2011-03-15T16:44:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/?p=231"},"modified":"2011-03-15T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T20:45:00","slug":"flash-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/2011\/03\/15\/flash-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin&#8217;s Pick of the Week: Flash Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FlashBurnout.aspx_.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-232 alignleft\" title=\"FlashBurnout.aspx\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/FlashBurnout.aspx_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cClick.<br \/>\nTelephoto lens. Zoom.\u00a0 In a shutter release millisecond Blake\u2019s world turns upside down. The nameless woman with the snake tattoo is not just another assignment. \u201cThat\u2019s my mom!,\u201d gasps Marissa.<\/p>\n<p>Click.<br \/>\nSaturated self-portrait: Blake, nice guy, class clown, always trying to get a laugh, not sure where to focus.<\/p>\n<p>Click.<br \/>\nContrast. Shannon, Blake\u2019s GF. Total Babe. Marissa, just a friend and fellow photographer. Shannon loves him; Marissa needs him.\u00a0 How is he supposed to frame them in one shot?<br \/>\nClick.<br \/>\nChiaroscuro. Lightdark. Marissa again, overexposed.\u00a0 Crash and burn.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about negative space.<\/p>\n<p>Click.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; from the inside front flap of <em>Flash Burnout.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blake is a photographer. Blake is a guy caught between two girls.\u00a0 Blake is a comedian.\u00a0 Blake is someone you\u2019re going to want to meet.<\/p>\n<p>Flash Burnout won the William C. Morris Young Adult Fiction Debut Award last year. Author L.K. Madigan passed away last month, leaving behind this and only one other novel.\u00a0 She was very talented and the book world will miss her.\u00a0 Honor her by picking up this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cClick. Telephoto lens. Zoom.\u00a0 In a shutter release millisecond Blake\u2019s world turns upside down. The nameless woman with the snake tattoo is not just another assignment. \u201cThat\u2019s my mom!,\u201d gasps Marissa. Click. Saturated self-portrait: Blake, nice guy, class clown, always trying to get a laugh, not sure where to focus. Click. Contrast. Shannon, Blake\u2019s GF. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/2011\/03\/15\/flash-burnout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Erin&#8217;s Pick of the Week: Flash Burnout&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[14,28,29],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pick-of-the-week-2","tag-books","tag-flash-burnout","tag-l-k-madigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}