{"id":791,"date":"2014-10-30T21:10:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/?p=791"},"modified":"2014-10-30T21:10:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:10:03","slug":"waterloo-region-record-sonia-day-was-determined-to-see-deer-eyes-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo Region Record | Sonia Day was determined to see \u201cDeer Eyes\u2019\u2019 published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Waterloo Region Record<\/strong><br \/>\nby\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:vhill@therecord.com\">Valerie Hill<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">BELWOOD \u2014 It seems every new creative endeavour Sonia Day puts her hand to she shows exceptional talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">A painter with several works in the City of Toronto&#8217;s permanent art collection, a longtime gardening columnist with the Toronto Star and author of five books on gardening, plus two works of non-fiction, Day decided to give novel-writing a try.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">When her first attempt was rejected by an agent, in a fit of frustration she tossed the whole thing out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">Day, a feisty British expat with a lot of energy, is not easily dissuaded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"printable-text\">The idea for her next book, &#8220;Deer Eyes, &#8221; had been percolating in her brain for years, though she finally put pen to paper a couple of years ago, then she dashed off to Mexico for a couple of months early in 2013 to finish it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/whatson-story\/4948461-sonia-day-was-determined-to-see-dear-eyes-published\/\" target=\"_blank\">[&#8230; read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterloo Region Record by\u00a0Valerie Hill BELWOOD \u2014 It seems every new creative endeavour Sonia Day puts her hand to she shows exceptional talent. A painter with several works in the City of Toronto&#8217;s permanent art collection, a longtime gardening columnist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soniaday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}