{"id":241,"date":"2006-11-17T12:36:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=241"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:37:09","slug":"ive_got_to_get_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/11\/ive_got_to_get_.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve got to get Jess Walter&#8217;s latest onto my reading pile."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if not for all the fabulous reviews it (<em>The Zero<\/em>) is getting, for the fact that he posted this hilarious quote on the Powell&#8217;s guest author blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/blog\/?p=1458\"><em>To me, golf is like karaoke: the only thing more pathetic than being bad at it is being good at it.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That paragraph also started with this hilarity: <em>I once broke my collarbone in a golf tournament. Technically, I suppose, the injury was more of a gin-drinking accident than a golf accident, but it still says a lot about my relationship to the game that it&#8217;s my fondest golf memory. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if not for all the fabulous reviews it (The Zero) is getting, for the fact that he posted this hilarious quote on the Powell&#8217;s guest author blog: To me, golf is like karaoke: the only thing more pathetic than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/11\/ive_got_to_get_.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-lit_quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}