{"id":1692,"date":"2008-05-12T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/2008\/05\/12\/run-dont-walk-to-the-newsstand\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T18:51:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:51:52","slug":"run-dont-walk-to-the-newsstand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/run-dont-walk-to-the-newsstand\/","title":{"rendered":"run (don’t walk) to the newsstand!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOK, I must say that when I saw how fabulous the June issue of Essence<\/a> turned out, I was kind of speechless. I still am.<\/p>\n

For the record, yours truly nabbed the cover story (along with a salute to celebrity dads and a little fashion feature with Tia Mowry) but really, the process of getting it all done nearly drove me to a very, tall<\/span> glass of vodka – no juice, just ice. And I don’t even drink like that.<\/p>\n

After a bunch of frantic phone calls and e-mails with publicists, a few all-night transcribing sessions and about five missed deadlines (it wasn’t all my fault, really it wasn’t), I realize, yet again, that you’ve got to put in the work if you want to yield something beautiful. Did I mention that the cover story photos are breathtaking? Big up to Cliff Watts<\/a>, all day<\/span>!<\/p>\n

The issue is on the newsstand now and I’d be so thrilled if you’d go pick up a copy…or maybe, all three!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, I must say that when I saw how fabulous the June issue of Essence turned out, I was kind of speechless. I still am. For the record, yours truly nabbed the cover story (along with a salute to celebrity dads and a little fashion feature with Tia Mowry) but really, the process of getting… Read More »run (don’t walk) to the newsstand!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}