{"id":4,"date":"2012-04-03T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2012-04-03T14:39:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T21:39:23","slug":"making-the-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Making the Leap"},"content":{"rendered":"      <p>I&#8217;m happy to relocate my blog from Blogger to WordPress. It&#8217;s going to be fun to design my own website and start to promote my upcoming novel <em>Big in Japan,<\/em>\u00a0the story of a hapless heavy guy who goes to Japan and accidentally becomes a sumo wrestler. (He has to win the Emperor&#8217;s Cup to save The Girl.) It&#8217;s a zero to hero story, and when it comes out in July, I&#8217;m excited for readers all over to get to know Buck Cooper and to root for him as they read about his transformation in the Land of the Rising Sun.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_5\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?attachment_id=5\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5\" title=\"sumo at the vending machine\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sumo-at-the-vending-machine.jpg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sumo-at-the-vending-machine.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sumo-at-the-vending-machine.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sumo-at-the-vending-machine.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This pic combines two great things about Japan: vending machines and sumo wrestlers. 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