{"id":125,"date":"2006-09-01T22:31:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T03:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2006-09-01T22:31:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T03:31:43","slug":"read-it-and-weep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Glad That I&#8217;m Me"},"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\/231510594\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/61\/231510594_3e669d3159.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnygirlfromcanada.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">funny girl from Canada<\/a> recommended &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Running-Scissors-Memoir-Augusten-Burroughs\/dp\/031242227X\/sr=8-1\/qid=1157167117\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/102-2155793-1226550?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\" target=\"_blank\">Running With Scissors<\/a>&#8221; a few weeks ago. I had heard great things about Augusten Burroughs&#8217; writing, and many critics compare him to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Me-Talk-Pretty-One-Day\/dp\/0316776963\/sr=1-1\/qid=1157168182\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/102-2155793-1226550?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\" target=\"_blank\">David Sedaris<\/a>. Now, Sedaris is one of my top 10 favorite authors of all time so I was a little skeptical about this, but I have to admit Burroughs tells a story that is like stumbling across a horrific accident: you can&#8217;t help but watch while holding your breath and thanking God that its not you. Funny, endearing, frightening and upsetting because it is a memoir&#8230;this one ain&#8217;t for everybody, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/div>\n<p>So, bring it on. What are some of your favorite books or books that you recommend?<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; Happy 30th Birthday to my favorite sister!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A funny girl from Canada recommended &#8220;Running With Scissors&#8221; a few weeks ago. I had heard great things about Augusten Burroughs&#8217; writing, and many critics compare him to David Sedaris. Now, Sedaris is one of my top 10 favorite authors of all time so I was a little skeptical about this, but I have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m Glad That I&#8217;m Me<\/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":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-eye-holes-booksfilm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","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=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}