{"id":1257,"date":"2010-07-27T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:41:24","slug":"book-log-29-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; 29: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>29: A Novel<\/i> by Adena Halpern<\/p>\n<p>I read this on the plane back from Mexico a few weeks back.  I wasn&#8217;t going to put it in my book log, because I was too embarrassed.  It&#8217;s essentially a member of the Freaky Friday\/18 Again\/Topsy-Turvy genre of old people becoming young for a time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s annoying, and poorly written, and predictable.  The airport bookstore had this, or a bunch of conservative political commentary.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story is to always pack enough books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29: A Novel by Adena Halpern I read this on the plane back from Mexico a few weeks back. I wasn&#8217;t going to put it in my book log, because I was too embarrassed. It&#8217;s essentially a member of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1257\">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-1257","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\/1257","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=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}