{"id":1758,"date":"2012-03-05T15:20:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:32:53","slug":"book-log-is-everyone-hanging-out-without-me-and-other-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns)<\/em> by Mindy Kaling<\/p>\n<p>I like Mindy Kaling on the <em>The Office<\/em>, and I think they use her character juuuuust enough.  I did not know she was a writer&#8230; I never read the credits.<\/p>\n<p>In the Funny Women Memoirish Book category, it&#8217;s not quite as strong as Fey&#8217;s <em>Bossypants<\/em>, but she&#8217;s funny.  What&#8217;s good is good; the only weakness is there are some sections that really, really feel like filler.  (e.g. several photos downloaded from her mobile demonstrating her tendency to use it as a mirror).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some interesting commentary and storytelling about her journey to becoming a writer for <em>The Office<\/em>.  I did not know she co-wrote and toured a two-woman show about Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, where she played Ben Affleck.  So I&#8217;ve learned that, at the very least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) by Mindy Kaling I like Mindy Kaling on the The Office, and I think they use her character juuuuust enough. I did not know she was a writer&#8230; I never read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1758\">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":[486],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","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=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}