{"id":9321,"date":"2015-04-20T22:04:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T22:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2015-04-21T04:41:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T04:41:50","slug":"with-romance-flair-and-courage-of-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/20\/with-romance-flair-and-courage-of-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"with romance, flair and courage of conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a great review by heather <span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"HEATHER HAVRILESKY\">havrilesky<\/span><\/span> (ask polly!) of kate bolick&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/19\/books\/review\/spinster-by-kate-bolick.html?ref=todayspaper\" target=\"_blank\"><em>spinster<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the most engrossing passages in the book focus on the joys of solitude. Bolick is at the height of her powers when describing the peculiar \u2014 and sometimes hard to capture \u2014 satisfactions of being alone. In the wake of a long-overdue breakup, for example, she recalls eating a Big Mac late one drunken night on the sidewalk on her walk home. \u201cI chomped and strolled as slowly as I could, prolonging the delectable realization that waiting for me at home was nothing but an empty bed into which I\u2019d crawl naked and drunk and stinking of fast food, disgusting nobody but myself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>YES\/CHOMPING AND STROLLING<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a great review by heather havrilesky (ask polly!) of kate bolick&#8217;s book spinster: But the most engrossing passages in the book focus on the joys of solitude. Bolick is at the height of her powers when describing the peculiar \u2014 and sometimes hard to capture \u2014 satisfactions of being alone. In the wake of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9353,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions\/9353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}