{"id":3638,"date":"2010-10-13T22:34:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T03:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2010-10-13T22:34:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T03:34:36","slug":"american-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/13\/american-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"american gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\" alt=\"American Gods\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1276710015m\/7462949.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7462949-american-gods\">American Gods<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1221698.Neil_Gaiman\">Neil Gaiman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not entirely fair for me to review this, as I got about a third of the way through and finally gave up.  I borrowed it from the library, which usually forces me to race through a book, yet every time I picked up my nook, I searched for other stuff to read instead of continuing along.  It felt like a chore.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a shame, because I&#8217;ve had love for Gaiman since I read the Sandman graphic novels in college (and still have a set on my shelf).<\/p>\n<p>I just couldn&#8217;t get invested in any way.  And at page 160, I realized I was never going to get there.  and there&#8217;s no point in spending the next two weeks that I&#8217;m entitled to keep it out of the library avoiding reading it.  There are a dozen people on the waiting list, and I figure I&#8217;ll be considerate and just return the darn thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/4176347-samantha\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Gods by Neil Gaiman It&#8217;s not entirely fair for me to review this, as I got about a third of the way through and finally gave up. I borrowed it from the library, which usually forces me to race through a book, yet every time I picked up my nook, I searched for other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-WG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}