{"id":1997,"date":"2012-10-02T13:10:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2012-10-02T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T17:10:31","slug":"help-a-reader-out-vampire-ballerina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/help-a-reader-out-vampire-ballerina\/","title":{"rendered":"Help a Reader Out: Vampire Ballerina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mystery keyword searcher is looking for&#8230; a short scary story about a ballet teacher who uses her students&#8217; blood to stay young.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s not a short story, and it doesn&#8217;t have a ballet teacher, but there&#8217;s a short YA novel that comes to mind immediately, and that is <em>Dead is the New Black<\/em> by Marlene Perez. The plot includes a substitute gym teacher and cheerleading coach who sucks away the cheerleaders&#8217; lives to stay young. Maybe that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re looking for?<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has knowledge of a short story that fits the description above, please leave an answer in the comments. But I&#8217;m pretty sure our mystery searcher is looking for Dead is the New Black. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mystery keyword searcher is looking for&#8230; a short scary story about a ballet teacher who uses her students&#8217; blood to stay young. Well, it&#8217;s not a short story, and it doesn&#8217;t have a ballet teacher, but there&#8217;s a short YA novel that comes to mind immediately, and that is Dead is the New Black<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/help-a-reader-out-vampire-ballerina\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1264,446,41],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dead-is-the-new-black","tag-help-a-reader-out","tag-ya-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}