{"id":653,"date":"2007-10-31T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=653"},"modified":"2007-10-31T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T09:59:27","slug":"short_stories_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/short_stories_b.html","title":{"rendered":"Short Stories: &#8220;Beware of God&#8221; by Shalom Auslander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his new book getting reviewed all over the place and Bookslut wholeheartedly recommending him, thought it was time I checked out Auslander.<br \/>\nReally funny, sarcastic, biting religious humor.  Some of the stories were really really hilarious, particularly if you know anything about Judaism.  If you don&#8217;t, some of the specifics might just go over your head.   Some weren&#8217;t quite as funny, or perhaps it&#8217;s better read not all in a row as it&#8217;s a little one-note.  If you&#8217;re not into mocking religion, then you wouldn&#8217;t be interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his new book getting reviewed all over the place and Bookslut wholeheartedly recommending him, thought it was time I checked out Auslander. Really funny, sarcastic, biting religious humor. Some of the stories were really really hilarious, particularly if you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/short_stories_b.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":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}