{"id":1982,"date":"2002-03-19T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2002-03-19T22:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2002-03-19T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2002-03-19T22:39:51","slug":"book-review-barbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/03\/19\/book-review-barbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review Barbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are an author and have recently written a bad book, please send me a review copy so that I may use the following <a href='http:\/\/users.rcn.com\/lyndanyc\/dorothy.html'>Dorthy Parker<\/a>-esque zingers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your novel profoundly moved me:  thirty pages into it I gave up and opted for a stroll.\n<li>This book had me overcome with sensation and put tears in my eyes.  But, then, paper cuts are always the most painful of wounds.\n<li>Your skill in word choice is surpassed only by your inability to put them in a coherent order.\n<li>I was simply unable to put your book down after the third chapter, owing mostly to the fact that I never again picked it up.\n<li>Your work is a forceful testament to the often overlooked benefits of illiteracy.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are an author and have recently written a bad book, please send me a review copy so that I may use the following Dorthy Parker-esque zingers. Your novel profoundly moved me: thirty pages into it I gave up and opted for a stroll. This book had me overcome with sensation and put tears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}