{"id":875,"date":"2008-05-24T17:08:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T17:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=875"},"modified":"2011-10-29T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T18:27:31","slug":"fiction_slam_by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/05\/fiction_slam_by.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: Slam, by Nick Hornby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A younger version of the main characters from &#8220;About a Boy&#8221; and &#8220;High Fidelity&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2006\/10\/duff_says_read_and_sometimes_w.html\">two very beloved books &#8217;round here.  Although you may remember, I do NOT love some of his others<\/a>; and I only love the movie of ONE of those).<\/p>\n<p>Easy, honest, open&#8230;with a wee little bit of fantasy future thrown in.  Liked it, but didn&#8217;t always love it, sometimes frustrated by it.  As with all teenage boys, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A younger version of the main characters from &#8220;About a Boy&#8221; and &#8220;High Fidelity&#8221; (two very beloved books &#8217;round here. Although you may remember, I do NOT love some of his others; and I only love the movie of ONE &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/05\/fiction_slam_by.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-875","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\/875","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=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}