{"id":4318,"date":"2023-05-24T22:03:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T10:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2023-06-23T22:08:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T10:08:56","slug":"postcards-from-the-edge-carrie-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2023\/05\/24\/postcards-from-the-edge-carrie-fisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from the Edge \u2013 Carrie Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/postcards-1-740x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/postcards-1-740x1024.jpg 740w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/postcards-1-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/postcards-1-768x1062.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/postcards-1-1111x1536.jpg 1111w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/postcards-1-1481x2048.jpg 1481w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/postcards-1-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/postcards-1-1200x1660.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/postcards-1-scaled.jpg 1851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I read this book about 30 years ago and loved it. It may be a pretty easy read, but Suzanne the protagonist is very witty and likeable and the dialogue is packed \u2013 <em>packed!<\/em> \u2013 with one-liners and profundities in equal measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The setting is Hollywood, and since the writer is Carrie Fisher I suppose it\u2019s all based on reality. What a crazy world that is. <em>Postcards from the Edge<\/em> is a fun journey, and even if the end is a bit too neat, there are lots of laughs and some thought-provoking insights along the way.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this book about 30 years ago and loved it. It may be a pretty easy read, but Suzanne the protagonist is very witty and likeable and the dialogue is packed \u2013 packed! \u2013 with one-liners and profundities in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2023\/05\/24\/postcards-from-the-edge-carrie-fisher\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,232,63],"class_list":["post-4318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-carrie-fisher","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}