{"id":12206,"date":"2010-04-27T00:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T05:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12206"},"modified":"2010-04-05T20:28:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T01:28:38","slug":"thompson-craig-good-bye-chunky-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12206","title":{"rendered":"Thompson, Craig &#8211; Good-Bye, Chunky Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dootdootgarden.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/chunky.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1891830090\/xeroxarmy-20\" target=\"_blank\">Good-Bye, Chunky Rice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This guy has to put out another book soon. This was the best thing I read last year and, judging from some of the &#8220;best of&#8221; lists that I saw, I wasn&#8217;t alone. It&#8217;s the story of Chunky Rice leaving his best friend to go on a journey that he can&#8217;t explain. Every character is wonderfully realized: the &#8220;girlfriend&#8221; he leaves behind who puts messages in bottles in the hope that they&#8217;ll reach him at sea, the man who befriends an injured bird to make up for his dog Chomper, even the sea captain who gave up on people long ago. I can&#8217;t recommend this book enough. It&#8217;s the kind of book that you can give to people who don&#8217;t read comics and have them accept it readily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Good-Bye, Chunky Rice This guy has to put out another book soon. This was the best thing I read last year and, judging from some of the &#8220;best of&#8221; lists that I saw, I wasn&#8217;t alone. It&#8217;s the story of Chunky Rice leaving his best friend to go on a journey that he can&#8217;t [&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":[3329,2178],"class_list":["post-12206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-craig-thompson","tag-good-bye-chunky-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206","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=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12209,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions\/12209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}