{"id":94,"date":"2010-02-07T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T17:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2011-08-28T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:55:12","slug":"book-3-of-52-i-drink-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/book-3-of-52-i-drink-for-a-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 3 (of 52) &#8211; I Drink For A Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 138px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/I-Drink-Reason-David-Cross\/dp\/0446579483\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265563658&amp;sr=8-1#noop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"I Drink For A Reason - David Cross\" src=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=CVmHQgAACAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=1\" alt=\"I Drink For A Reason - David Cross\" width=\"128\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Drink For A Reason - David Cross<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went into this with high expectations.\u00a0 David Cross is one of my favorite comedians and his CD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shut-Up-You-Fucking-Baby\/dp\/B00006YXH0\/ref=pd_sim_b_8\" target=\"_blank\">Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!<\/a>\u00a0is one of the few physical CDs I still listen to.\u00a0 That said, there&#8217;s something missing here and I&#8217;m not quite sure what it is.\u00a0 Every time I picked the book up, I could hardly get through 10 pages at a time.\u00a0 I started it on a\u00a07 hour flight to London, planning on finishing it on the way, but barely got half way on both the initial flight and the return home.\u00a0 Nearly two months later, I&#8217;m done and I still can&#8217;t figure out why it isn&#8217;t clicking.\u00a0 The one thing it does have going for it is continued attacks on a Mr. James Belushi.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a &#8220;friend&#8221; has a copy of the audiobook, so maybe I&#8217;ll give that a listen and see if Cross&#8217;s voice and delivery improves my connection to the material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went into this with high expectations.\u00a0 David Cross is one of my favorite comedians and his CD Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!\u00a0is one of the few physical CDs I still listen to.\u00a0 That said, there&#8217;s something missing here and I&#8217;m not quite sure what it is.\u00a0 Every time I picked the book up, I [&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":[5779,74,773,75],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-comedy","tag-david-cross","tag-i-drink-for-a-reason","tag-jim-belushi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}