{"id":1219,"date":"2010-01-04T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:42:03","slug":"book-log-wishful-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Wishful Drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Wishful Drinking<\/i> by Carrie Fisher<\/p>\n<p>Stacey got me this for Xmas for no reason whatsoever, except that Carrie Fisher was in <i>Star Wars<\/i>, <i>The Blues Brothers<\/i> and <i>When Harry Met Sally<\/i>, all of which I love.<\/p>\n<p> This book is based on a one-woman show by Ms. Fisher, and it shows.  It&#8217;s a stand up routine written down; You can feel where the pause-for-laughters were thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a quick read, with some interesting anecdotes, though none about <i>Sally<\/i> or <i>Blues Brothers<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher Stacey got me this for Xmas for no reason whatsoever, except that Carrie Fisher was in Star Wars, The Blues Brothers and When Harry Met Sally, all of which I love. This book is based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[494,457],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}