{"id":298,"date":"2008-04-17T06:27:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/james-frey-doodles-for-charity-this-is-a-good-cause-donate\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T07:40:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T14:40:39","slug":"james-frey-doodles-for-charity-this-is-a-good-cause-donate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/17\/james-frey-doodles-for-charity-this-is-a-good-cause-donate\/","title":{"rendered":"James Frey Doodles For Charity (this is a good cause &#8211; So Donate.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/doodledayusa.org\" target=\"_blank\">DoodleDayUSA.org<\/a> &#8211; working to cure neurofibromatosis<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: inherit; border-color: inherit; margin-top: 0.1em; font-weight: bold; padding: 0.7em\" class=\"gbBlock\" id=\"gsImageView\"><span style=\"color: #f4560f; text-decoration: underline\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doodledayusa.org\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=381&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" height=\"297\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" alt=\"James Frey\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px\" class=\"giDescription\"><strong>James Frey&#8217;s first memoir of his treatment at an alcohol and drug addiction rehabilitation facility,\u00a0<em>A Million Little Pieces<\/em>\u00a0(2003), and its follow-up,\u00a0<em>My Friend Leonard<\/em>\u00a0(2005-also a memoir), became New York Times #1 bestsellers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px\" class=\"giDescription\"><strong><em>A Million Little Pieces<\/em>\u00a0remained on the New York Times best seller list for 44 weeks, selling in excess of 4.5 million copies. The New Yorker praised the book as \u201cA frenzied, electrifying description of the experience.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; margin-top: 0.6em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px\" class=\"giDescription\"><strong>His latest work,\u00a0<em>Bright Shiny Morning<\/em>, published by HarperCollins, will be released in June 2008. This new book, a novel, is set in contemporary Los Angeles and tracks the lives of various characters from different backgrounds. These include a male movie star, a Mexican maid, and a homeless man from Venice Beach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Frey&#8217;s books have been published in thirty-one languages worldwide.<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong>Visit his<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/\" style=\"font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #6b8cb7\">Official website<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doodledayusa.org\/images\/whatis.gif\" height=\"61\" width=\"273\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">As part of NF Awareness month, celebrity doodles will be available for auction on eBay from\u00a0<strong>May 8th &#8211; 18th<\/strong>.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">These doodles have a very important aim: the funds they raise will benefit NF, Inc., an organization dedicated to providing support to individuals and families affected by neurofibromatosis (NF).<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Neurofibromatosis is a genetic disorder that affects one in every 2,500 births. NF is more common than Cystic Fibrosis, Muscular Dystrophy and Huntington\u2019s Disease combined. Funds raised from the Doodle Day auction will go to support education, advocacy, coalitions, and research for treatments and a cure.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">To learn more about NF, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfinc.org\/\" style=\"color: #000099\" target=\"_blank\">www.nfinc.org<\/a>.<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">For more information about National Doodle Day, contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:doodleday@nfinc.org\" style=\"color: #000099\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doodledayusa.org\/images\/email1.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"email doodleday@nfinc.org\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"137\"><font style=\"font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfinc.org\/\" style=\"color: #000099\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doodledayusa.org\/images\/nflogo.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neurofibromatosis, Inc.\" \/><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal\"><font style=\"font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfinc.org\/\" style=\"color: #000099\" target=\"_blank\">Neurofibromatosis, Inc.<\/a><\/font>\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/td>\n<td width=\"13\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td width=\"104\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaldoodleday.org.uk\/\" style=\"color: #000099\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doodledayusa.org\/images\/ddlogo_sm.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"National Doodle Day UK\" \/><font style=\"font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold\">Doodle Day UK<\/font><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit DoodleDayUSA.org &#8211; working to cure neurofibromatosis James Frey&#8217;s first memoir of his treatment at an alcohol and drug addiction rehabilitation facility,\u00a0A Million Little Pieces\u00a0(2003), and its follow-up,\u00a0My Friend Leonard\u00a0(2005-also a memoir), became New York Times #1 bestsellers.\u00a0 A Million Little Pieces\u00a0remained on the New York Times best seller list for 44 weeks, selling in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}