{"id":2861,"date":"2020-06-14T21:18:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T21:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2020-06-14T21:18:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T21:18:58","slug":"book-log-9-such-a-fun-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #9: Such a Fun Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Such a Fun Age<\/em> by Kiley Reid [Kindle, $13.99]<\/p>\n<p>I made a note of this book after seeing an interview with Kiley Reid by Trevor Noah.  Trevor endorsed her book, and I figure he knows good books. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, it&#8217;s centers around a black babysitter taking care of a white child in a supermarket, where she is accosted by store security on suspician of kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>i started reading it before the most recent momentum from the Black Lives Matter movement kicked in; it turned out to be serendipitious reading material. <\/p>\n<p>And interesting, and entertaining.  Trevor didn&#8217;t let me down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid [Kindle, $13.99] I made a note of this book after seeing an interview with Kiley Reid by Trevor Noah. Trevor endorsed her book, and I figure he knows good books. Interestingly, it&#8217;s centers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2861\">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":[512,513,510],"tags":[520],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-books","category-kindle","tag-book-log-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","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=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}