{"id":125,"date":"2010-03-02T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:53:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-10-01T00:53:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:53:24","slug":"melissa-de-la-cruz-visits-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2010\/03\/02\/melissa-de-la-cruz-visits-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa de la Cruz visits Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYC-based, young adult author Melissa de la Cruz, a California native, made a quick trip to Los Angeles last week. Coincidently (or not), Warner Brothers just bought a pitch by RJ Cutler to direct the movie adaptation of her book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Au Pair<\/span>.&nbsp; Drew Barrymore&#8217;s Flower Films will be producing.<\/p>\n<p>de la Cruz visited a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasadenastarnews.com\/ci_14464407?source=rss\">small Catholic girl&#8217;s<\/a> school, the Ramona Convent Secondary School, in Alhambra. Usually, Southern Californian youth benefit from the area&#8217;s proximity to the pop culture industry.&nbsp; This time,&nbsp; it sounds like Hollywood benefited from one school girl&#8217;s persistence<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>it took Esther Leung, 17, a senior at Ramona and a big fan of the &#8220;Blue Blood&#8221; series, nearly two years to nail down a date when the De La Cruz could visit the school. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-125\" data-postid=\"125\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-125 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC-based, young adult author Melissa de la Cruz, a California native, made a quick trip to Los Angeles last week. Coincidently (or not), Warner Brothers just bought a pitch by RJ Cutler to direct the movie adaptation of her book, Au Pair.&nbsp; Drew Barrymore&#8217;s Flower Films will be producing. de la Cruz visited a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}