{"id":10546,"date":"2010-04-24T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10546"},"modified":"2010-03-31T16:50:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T21:50:06","slug":"lafler-steve-bughouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10546","title":{"rendered":"Lafler, Steve &#8211; Bughouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevelafler.net\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/bughouse1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1891830139\/xeroxarmy-20\"><strong>Bughouse<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;ve learned anything from doing this page, it&#8217;s that I can&#8217;t assume anything about books that I didn&#8217;t think I liked. I read this one when it first came out, probably about a year ago, and didn&#8217;t like it at all. I put off putting it on the page mostly because I didn&#8217;t want to have to read the damned thing again, otherwise it would have been up here months ago. Well, I liked it this time around. Not sure what my problem was with it the first time around, but I didn&#8217;t have much of a problem this time. It&#8217;s the story of a jazz band and what they go through to become famous. It starts off with the main character (the sax player, Jimmy Watts) as a child, and goes up all the way to when he&#8217;s an old man. It&#8217;s too bad I didn&#8217;t read this again before I saw that there was another collection coming out, because now I&#8217;m going to have to wait and see if the local comic store gets it before I can buy it. Funny, insightful, and it has a lot of shady characters in it. Good readin&#8217;, folks. I guess you could even say that it examines addiction and the self, if you wanted to go that far. Worth a look, then worth another look if you decide that you don&#8217;t like it the first time around&#8230; Hey, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevelafler.net\/\">website<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/bughouse2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"651\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Bughouse If I&#8217;ve learned anything from doing this page, it&#8217;s that I can&#8217;t assume anything about books that I didn&#8217;t think I liked. I read this one when it first came out, probably about a year ago, and didn&#8217;t like it at all. I put off putting it on the page mostly because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1502,2734],"class_list":["post-10546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-bughouse","tag-steve-lafler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10548,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions\/10548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}