{"id":987,"date":"2009-08-13T16:55:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T22:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/?p=987"},"modified":"2009-08-13T16:55:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T22:55:36","slug":"sundaymooch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/987","title":{"rendered":"Sundaymooch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to Bookmooch<\/a> some books, but then I thought “if I’m going to mail these anyway, I might as well see if any friends want them”. It’s the selfish\/altruistic thing – I get to feel good about sharing, and gain some shelf space.<\/p>\n

So, I have a couple of books I’d love to get off my shelves. Email or leave a comment if you want me to mail it to you.<\/p>\n

Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real-life adventures in an inner-city ambulance<\/a>
\nIt’s a blog-to-book by a London EMT. He writes about his experiences driving an ambulance through London responding to calls. It’s not too gory, but it is a great day-in-the-life of someone who has a really interesting job.<\/p>\n

Best Friends Forever<\/a>
\nI read this because the publisher sent it to me. It is NOT my style. It was almost good – there are two main characters, women with different kinds of fucked-up high school lives, who turned out OK. So, you can choose to empathize with the former fatty, or the cute and poor.<\/p>\n

I Know This Much Is True<\/a>
\nWally Lamb writes great novels, but this was fits into the category of books you can’t read because there’s something too close to your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to Bookmooch some books, but then I thought “if I’m going to mail these anyway, I might as well see if any friends want them”. It’s the selfish\/altruistic thing – I get to feel good about sharing, and gain some shelf space. So, I have a couple of books I’d love to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}