{"id":2337,"date":"2015-04-27T20:08:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2015-04-27T20:08:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:08:43","slug":"book-log-funny-girl-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2337","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Funny Girl: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Funny Girl: A Novel<\/em> by Nick Hornby<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never not enjoyed a Nick Hornby novel. \u00a0The reviews I&#8217;d read of this one were all over the place, but with his track record thus far,\u00a0there&#8217;s little possibility that\u00a0I&#8217;m <em>not<\/em> going to read anything he writes.<\/p>\n<p>And I wasn&#8217;t disappointed. \u00a0Though not as rich as his other works, it was still an entertaining and smooth read. \u00a0There&#8217;s a lot of flavor of the early days of British television, and interesting characters being drawn.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, funny.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there was a girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny Girl: A Novel by Nick Hornby I&#8217;ve never not enjoyed a Nick Hornby novel. \u00a0The reviews I&#8217;d read of this one were all over the place, but with his track record thus far,\u00a0there&#8217;s little possibility that\u00a0I&#8217;m not going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2337\">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],"tags":[507,226],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","tag-book-log-2015","tag-hornby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","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=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}