{"id":940,"date":"2019-04-25T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T07:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2019-04-24T21:08:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T04:08:41","slug":"jazz-baby-is-part-of-the-rrbc-blog-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/25\/jazz-baby-is-part-of-the-rrbc-blog-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Baby is part of the #RRBC blog hop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-947 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/JazzBaby-198x300.jpg?resize=160%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jazz Baby by Beem Weeks\" width=\"160\" height=\"243\">While all of Mississippi bakes in the scorching summer of 1925, sudden orphanhood wraps its icy embrace around Emily Ann &#8220;Baby&#8221; Teegarten, a pretty young teen.<\/p>\n<p>Taken in by an aunt bent on ridding herself of this unexpected burden, Baby Teegarten plots her escape using the only means at her disposal: a voice that brings church ladies to righteous tears, and makes both angels and devils take notice. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to New York City to sing jazz,&#8221; she brags to anybody who&#8217;ll listen. But the Big Apple&#8211;well, it&#8217;s an awful long way from that dry patch of earth she&#8217;d always called home.<\/p>\n<p>So when the smoky stages of New Orleans speakeasies give a whistle, offering all sorts of shortcuts, Emily Ann soon learns it&#8217;s the whorehouses and opium dens that can sidetrack a girl and dim a spotlight&#8230;and knowing the wrong people can snuff it out.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz Baby just wants to sing&#8211;not fight to stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>Find more books on the RRBC blog hop <a href=\"#RRBC 2018 WRITERS' CONFERENCE &amp; BOOK EXPO SPONSOR BLOG HOP\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While all of Mississippi bakes in the scorching summer of 1925, sudden orphanhood wraps its icy embrace around Emily Ann &#8220;Baby&#8221; Teegarten, a pretty young teen. Taken in by an aunt bent on ridding herself of this unexpected burden, Baby Teegarten plots her escape using the only means at her disposal: a voice that brings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/25\/jazz-baby-is-part-of-the-rrbc-blog-hop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jazz Baby is part of the #RRBC blog hop!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[530,140,532,529,534,531,537,533,536,535],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-topics","category-uncategorized","tag-beem-weeks","tag-blog-hop","tag-jazz","tag-jazz-baby","tag-new-orleans","tag-orphan","tag-rrbc","tag-singer","tag-speakeasies","tag-speakeasy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-fa","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}