{"id":120,"date":"2006-08-03T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2006-08-03T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T19:22:38","slug":"bookworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Bookworm"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/202829441\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/57\/202829441_45dff44df3.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A regular commenter on this here blog recommended this book to me about a month ago (Thanks S!). I picked it up and couldn&#8217;t put it down, it is\u00c2\u00a0one of the best books I&#8217;ve read this year. It was the perfect band-aid for my return to reality blues-a mix of travelogue and Oprah-esque self-discovery (from a male perspective).\u00c2\u00a0The premise is that one of the brothers gets dumped literally days before his wedding, but since everything is paid for, the jilted groom and family have a party anyway. The groom-not-to-be takes his brother with him on the already paid for two-week\u00c2\u00a0honeymoon, and it takes them on a two-year journey around the world. He falls in love with himself, his brother and la pura vida (the pure life) and you probably will too.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312340842\/sr=8-1\/qid=1154633025\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/103-4328620-8069413?ie=UTF8\" target=\"_blank\">Honeymoon with my Brother: A\u00c2\u00a0Memoir<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 A regular commenter on this here blog recommended this book to me about a month ago (Thanks S!). I picked it up and couldn&#8217;t put it down, it is\u00c2\u00a0one of the best books I&#8217;ve read this year. It was the perfect band-aid for my return to reality blues-a mix of travelogue and Oprah-esque self-discovery &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bookworm<\/span> <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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eye-holes-booksfilm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}