{"id":13313,"date":"2010-04-27T18:51:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13313"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:49","slug":"forney-ellen-monkey-food-the-complete-i-was-seven-in-75-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13313","title":{"rendered":"Forney, Ellen &#8211; Monkey Food: The Complete &#8220;I Was Seven in &#8217;75&#8221; Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenforney.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/monkey1,jpg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1560973625\/xeroxarmy-20\">Monkey  Food: The Complete &#8220;I Was Seven in &#8217;75&#8221; Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit, I was ready to give this book a bad review. Most  books can&#8217;t save themselves after 50 or so pages of so-so stuff. Then it  slowly dawned on me that it wasn&#8217;t mediocre stuff, it was just stories  told in a really low-key fashion. When you&#8217;re done with the whole book  you have a really great portrait of what it was like growing up in the  70&#8217;s, which is all the more impressive because of the fact that these  strips were done mostly in weekly installments. She tells about dealing  with the possibility of someone figuring out in grade school that her  last name rhymes with &#8220;horny&#8221;, going to a nudist camp with her parents,  her stupid dog, traveling, and her parents getting in trouble for having  pot, among many other things. It totally won me over, anyway. I don&#8217;t  know if she&#8217;s still doing a weekly strip, but she has a few samples on  her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenforney.com\/\">page<\/a>. Unfortunately it&#8217;s only  a few samples, so you&#8217;re going to have to make up your mind from those  (and the one I&#8217;m putting up) as to whether or not you&#8217;re interested. I  think she&#8217;s worth a look, but who am I anyway?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/monkey2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"569\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Monkey Food: The Complete &#8220;I Was Seven in &#8217;75&#8221; Collection I have to admit, I was ready to give this book a bad review. Most books can&#8217;t save themselves after 50 or so pages of so-so stuff. Then it slowly dawned on me that it wasn&#8217;t mediocre stuff, it was just stories told in [&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":[3653,1095,1094],"class_list":["post-13313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ellen-forney","tag-i-was-seven-in-75","tag-monkey-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313","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=13313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13317,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions\/13317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}