{"id":20290,"date":"2023-05-21T16:04:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T22:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20290"},"modified":"2023-05-21T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T22:04:54","slug":"book-22-of-52-friends-lovers-and-the-big-terrible-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/book-22-of-52-friends-lovers-and-the-big-terrible-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 22 (of 52) &#8211; Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20291\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/friendsperry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20291\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20291\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/friendsperry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/friendsperry.jpg 500w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/friendsperry-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/friendsperry-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing &#8211; Matthew Perry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Matthew Perry, one of the stars of TV&#8217;s <em>Friends<\/em>, checks in with this memoir to tell us of his addictions, trouble maintaining a relationship, and how the two tie together in being caused by what he was lacking in his childhood.\u00a0 Finally clean and sober, for the moment, although due mostly in part to an exploded colon which left him in a coma for two weeks and with a colostomy bag for the better part of a year.\u00a0 If he is unable to resurrect his career, at least he has all that Friends money to fall back on.<\/p>\n<p><em>Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing<\/em> is my first audiobook of 2023 and my latest attempt to enjoy a celebrity memoir and coming away at least somewhat disappointed.\u00a0 Perry is a deeply flawed person and has gotten, and squandered, more chances than you or I might see.\u00a0 But, because Chandler Bing was part of one of the biggest hits in television history, everyone, at least professionally, forgives if not forgets, until the show is over.\u00a0 It&#8217;s tiring, to be honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Perry, one of the stars of TV&#8217;s Friends, checks in with this memoir to tell us of his addictions, trouble maintaining a relationship, and how the two tie together in being caused by what he was lacking in his childhood.\u00a0 Finally clean and sober, for the moment, although due mostly in part to an [&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":[2400,10657,2548],"class_list":["post-20290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-friends","tag-friends-lover-and-the-big-terrible-thing","tag-matthew-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290","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=20290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20292,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20290\/revisions\/20292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}