{"id":14184,"date":"2010-05-02T19:39:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14184"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:26","slug":"various-anthologies-only-the-lonely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14184","title":{"rendered":"Various Anthologies &#8211; Only the Lonely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungryforbrains.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/onlylonely1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"411\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Only the Lonely<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>The world has been begging for it, so here it is: an  anthology about being lonely, standing in the rain and dealing with the  women folk. Oh, and its collective tongue in pretty firmly in cheek for  most of it. Andy Terhune has a story about potential love in the bowling  alley, Thien Pham has a story called &#8220;Gummi Bears Taste Like Loneliness  (don&#8217;t know what explanation that needs), Joe Sayers has the best line  in the book with &#8220;I have procured a lobster, please prepare for coitus&#8221;,  Josh Frankel explodes and has some &#8220;journal&#8221; stuff, Alixopulos creepily  goes through his day and makes fun of the anthology, Tom Neely jerks  off and pees a lot, Jesse Reklaw does a wonderful Kochalka, and Fredo  misses his nighttime lover. A great parody of all of the many, many,  MANY whiny autobio stories out there about losing girlfriends and  staring at the rain. Which I usually like quite a bit, but parody is  always a good thing. Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"mailto:josh@hungryforbrains.com\">e-mail address<\/a>, it&#8217;s $3  and completely worth it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/onlylonely3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"482\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Only the Lonely The world has been begging for it, so here it is: an anthology about being lonely, standing in the rain and dealing with the women folk. Oh, and its collective tongue in pretty firmly in cheek for most of it. Andy Terhune has a story about potential love in the bowling [&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":[2459,4102,2637,3242,3403,2260,3905,4103],"class_list":["post-14184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-alixopulos","tag-andy-terhune","tag-jesse-reklaw","tag-joey-sayers","tag-josh-frankel","tag-only-the-lonely","tag-thien-pham","tag-tom-neely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184","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=14184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16412,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184\/revisions\/16412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}