{"id":8293,"date":"2010-04-22T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:10:41","slug":"bell-gabrielle-when-im-old-and-other-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8293","title":{"rendered":"Bell, Gabrielle &#8211; When I&#8217;m Old and Other Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gbell.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/when1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1891867431\/xeroxarmy-20\">When  I&#8217;m Old And Other Stories<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hooray for a big collection of her work! I think I gave away the fact  in my last review that I love her comics, but I hadn&#8217;t seen very many  of them. Problem solved! A few of the stories were in her other book  that I read, but overall this was a bunch of new stuff. It&#8217;s a bargain  at $12.95 too, but you probably want some sort of description before you  buy it&#8230; OK. There&#8217;s a short story about the best babysitter in the  world, a lot of one page stories about a girl with different trophy  boyfriends, a suicidal kid, Gabrielle growing to giant size, a story  about figuring out the human heart, and plenty of other stuff. The  fascinating thing about her stories for me is that you&#8217;re never quite  sure if it&#8217;s autobiographical or not, so you kind of have to take  everything as a combination of both, or perhaps just her interpretation  of real events. Fantastic, vivid writing along with some of the best  facial expressions I&#8217;ve ever seen, I really can&#8217;t recommend her stuff  enough. Buy it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/when2.bmp\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"689\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website When I&#8217;m Old And Other Stories Hooray for a big collection of her work! I think I gave away the fact in my last review that I love her comics, but I hadn&#8217;t seen very many of them. Problem solved! A few of the stories were in her other book that I read, but [&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":[2505,2506],"class_list":["post-8293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-gabrielle-bell","tag-when-im-old"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293","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=8293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8296,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions\/8296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}