{"id":23720,"date":"2020-12-10T23:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/the-tournament-of-books-enter-to-become-our-2021-reader-judge#id28592"},"modified":"2020-12-10T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T23:25:00","slug":"tell-us-why-you-should-be-our-2021-tournament-of-books-reader-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/tell-us-why-you-should-be-our-2021-tournament-of-books-reader-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell us why you should be our 2021 Tournament of Books Reader Judge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{image-1}<\/p>\n<p>Will you be the one to make the deciding call in an epic battle of literary bloodsport? Every year we leave a seat open on our judging panel for a Tournament of Books fan. This year, it could be you.<\/p>\n<p>Nominate yourself by completing the below form by Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, at midnight Eastern Time. For this exercise (but not your actual ToB judgment) you&rsquo;ve got 100 words. Here&rsquo;s what we want to know:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show us you&rsquo;re a reader.<\/strong> As a judge, you&rsquo;re faced with two books and a firm deadline. An appetite for reading is essential.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show us you&rsquo;re opinionated.<\/strong> We want judges with conviction, not kid gloves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show us you&rsquo;re creative.<\/strong> The strength of your final judgment is in how you express it. (Extra points if you avoid basketball metaphors.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show us who you are.<\/strong> What is it about you&mdash;your background, your job, your current life&mdash;that will help bring a fresh voice to the ToB?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"932\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfbgg78SEZpnglNONkuj4SUgMA1fmfJ4vcvYxoQir97wnK4kA\/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"100%\">Loading&amp;hellip;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/the-tournament-of-books-enter-to-become-our-2021-reader-judge\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    {image-1}<\/p>\n<p>Will you be the one to make the deciding call in an epic battle of literary bloodsport? Every year we leave a seat open on our judging panel for a Tournament of Books fan. This year, it could be you.<\/p>\n<p>Nominate yourself by compl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23721,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23720\/revisions\/23721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}