{"id":634,"date":"2010-04-04T21:38:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T05:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2010-04-04T21:38:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T05:38:45","slug":"review-i-drink-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Review: I Drink For A Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Cross&#8217;s <em>I Drink For A Reason<\/em> is a collection of short essays that cover a wide range of topics with a humorous tone.\u00a0 That describes a lot of books, and the execution completely determines the quality of the reading experience.\u00a0 For me, this was not a great experience, but not awful either.<\/p>\n<p>Cross has an acerbic delivery of some reasonable thinking, but nothing the left me with lasting impressions.\u00a0 I take that back, I thought his essay on breaking up was something special.\u00a0 Everything else was diverting enough, but fairly light.\u00a0 An enjoyable book to spend some time with , but pretty insubstantial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cross&#8217;s I Drink For A Reason is a collection of short essays that cover a wide range of topics with a humorous tone.\u00a0 That describes a lot of books, and the execution completely determines the quality of the reading experience.\u00a0 For me, this was not a great experience, but not awful either. Cross has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}