{"id":306,"date":"2004-06-03T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:46:28","slug":"book-log-dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Book Log  &#8211; Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim<\/u> by David Sedaris.<\/p>\n<p>Awesome.  Simply awesome.  However, too short.  As all of his stuff is.  I got this book this morning, and I&#8217;m done.  hour and a half at the DMV, an hour at lunch, and 15 minutes at the end of the day and poof!  no more book to read.  <\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness I have <i>The Confusion<\/i> at home waiting for me which, if it&#8217;s anything like the first volume <i>Quicksilver<\/i>, will take me 3 months to read.<\/p>\n<p>And I forgot, my mom got me <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=mHu1JiZ7iR&#038;isbn=0670032891&#038;itm=1\">The Well of Lost Plots<\/a>, Jasper Fforde&#8217;s latest Thursday Next book.  The first two were good mind candy reading.  Nothing really brilliant, but an interesting universe where they have time-travel but not Jet airplanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris. Awesome. Simply awesome. However, too short. As all of his stuff is. I got this book this morning, and I&#8217;m done. hour and a half at the DMV, an hour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=306\">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":[48],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2004"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}