{"id":16217,"date":"2020-06-02T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16217"},"modified":"2020-05-31T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:43:57","slug":"book-9-of-52-save-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/book-9-of-52-save-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 9 (of 52) &#8211; Save Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16218\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/saveyourself.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16218\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16218\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/saveyourself.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/saveyourself.jpg 331w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/saveyourself-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Save Yourself: A Memoir &#8211; Cameron Esposito<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Comedian Cameron Esposito checks in with her first memoir, a collection of essays detailing her growing up in the western suburbs of Chicago as a devout Catholic, going to Boston College and discovering her sexuality, coming out to friends and family, moving back to Chicago, finding both herself and a career, and, finally, taking the leap to move to LA.<\/p>\n<p>I have never seen Esposito perform live, despite the best of intentions.\u00a0 I had tickets to see her in <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/vacation-recap-toronto\/\">Toronto<\/a> back in 2015, but she had to cancel due to an acting gig.\u00a0 I had loose plans to see her this spring as part of her book tour, but, thanks to a certain pandemic, that show didn&#8217;t happen either.\u00a0 Thus, at least for the time being, this book is the closest I will get to her work for awhile.\u00a0 And an enjoyable book it was.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Cameron Esposito checks in with her first memoir, a collection of essays detailing her growing up in the western suburbs of Chicago as a devout Catholic, going to Boston College and discovering her sexuality, coming out to friends and family, moving back to Chicago, finding both herself and a career, and, finally, taking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8959,5758,8844,8958],"class_list":["post-16217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-boston-college","tag-cameron-esposito","tag-corona-virus","tag-save-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16221,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions\/16221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}