{"id":442,"date":"2007-06-13T09:09:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T09:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=442"},"modified":"2015-07-11T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T15:24:55","slug":"summer_reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/summer_reading.html","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has a number of summer book lists up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=10804366\">this one <\/a>has a lot of good stuff on it:  new Michael Ondaatje!; book #3 in the &#8220;Bangkok 8&#8221; series (oops, I haven&#8217;t read #2 yet); Bruce Chatwin is definitely great summer fare, always making his way through steamy places; this is the second place today I&#8217;ve read about &#8220;The Dud Avocado&#8221;; &#8220;The Children&#8217;s Hospital&#8221; sounds good; and I&#8217;ve been a fan of Anne Fadiman for quite some time now.<\/p>\n<p>Now if it weren&#8217;t for the two stacks of books I bought at the Printer&#8217;s Row Book Fair this weekend, as well as the two shelves of unreads I&#8217;ve lately been giving books away from in despair that they&#8217;ll ever find a reader&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has a number of summer book lists up, this one has a lot of good stuff on it: new Michael Ondaatje!; book #3 in the &#8220;Bangkok 8&#8221; series (oops, I haven&#8217;t read #2 yet); Bruce Chatwin is definitely great &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/summer_reading.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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}