{"id":1267,"date":"2010-10-18T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:41:24","slug":"book-log-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Slam<\/i> by Nick Hornby<\/p>\n<p>This is Hornby&#8217;s first Young Adult novel, and it&#8217;s good.  It tackles teenage pregnancy, and there&#8217;s some honest truths there but it doesn&#8217;t come across as an after-school special.<\/p>\n<p>This is the story of a young skater (not skateboarder, that&#8217;s not what the cool kids call it) who knocks up a girl.  The story is funny, and realistic, and it&#8217;s full of the stuff you&#8217;d want your teenager to know about having a kid. <\/p>\n<p>Or an adult having a kid.  Either one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slam by Nick Hornby This is Hornby&#8217;s first Young Adult novel, and it&#8217;s good. It tackles teenage pregnancy, and there&#8217;s some honest truths there but it doesn&#8217;t come across as an after-school special. This is the story of a young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1267\">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-1267","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\/1267","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=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}