{"id":944,"date":"2008-05-30T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=944"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:44:22","slug":"book-log-the-man-upstairs-and-other-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; The Man Upstairs and Other Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Man Upstairs and Other Stories<\/i> by P.G. Wodehouse<\/p>\n<p>A fine collection of a-musing short stories.  <\/p>\n<p>My favorite quote, from the short story <u>Ahead of Schedule<\/u>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his specialty, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money.  All he wanted was a chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P.G. Wodehouse A fine collection of a-musing short stories. My favorite quote, from the short story Ahead of Schedule: &#8220;Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=944\">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":[494,372,384],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2008","tag-wodehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}