{"id":626,"date":"2014-03-03T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T09:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=626"},"modified":"2023-06-22T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:23:12","slug":"dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim-david-sedaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2014\/03\/03\/dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim-david-sedaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim &#8212; David Sedaris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/dressyourfamily.jpg\" alt=\"Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim\" class=\"wp-image-726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/dressyourfamily.jpg 333w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/dressyourfamily-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/dressyourfamily-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>These stories are clever and funny. The book makes me think of a grown-up version of <cite>Diary of a Wimpy Kid<\/cite>, without the pictures. Actually that probably makes it sound far less good than it really is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a lot of pain, humour and understanding here, and it makes me want to read more. (To be honest, it makes me want to finish this book: I only read half of somebody else&#8217;s copy.)<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These stories are clever and funny. The book makes me think of a grown-up version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, without the pictures. Actually that probably makes it sound far less good than it really is. There is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2014\/03\/03\/dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim-david-sedaris\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,231,64],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-david-sedaris","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4313,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/4313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}