{"id":2423,"date":"2016-01-30T19:57:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2016-01-30T19:59:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:59:51","slug":"book-log-7-youre-never-weird-on-the-internet-almost-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2423","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #7 &#8211; You&#8217;re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>You&#8217;re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir<\/em> by Felicia Day [<em>Kindle, Amazon<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>I am powerless to resist these autobiographies by funny women who are not really old enough to be writing autobiographies.  Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling&#8230; funny stuff.  Are they autobiographies?  Or just stand-up routines where they riff on their life so far in book form?  Perhaps they&#8217;re old enough for the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Felicia Day is pretty funny.  We knew she could <em>act<\/em> funny from <em>Buffy<\/em> and <em>Doctor Horrible<\/em>, and we knew she could write funny from <em>The Guild<\/em>.  So, no surprise there.  She had an eccentric childhood of homeschooling, going to college at 16, and other outside-the-standard upbringings. <\/p>\n<p>She writes a lot about <em>The Guild<\/em> and later works, not so much about <em>Buffy<\/em> and <em>Doctor Horrible<\/em>.  But Joss Whedon writes a very nice introduction regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir by Felicia Day [Kindle, Amazon] I am powerless to resist these autobiographies by funny women who are not really old enough to be writing autobiographies. Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2423\">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":[512,481,513,510],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-book-log","category-books","category-kindle","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","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=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}