{"id":338,"date":"2001-10-19T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-19T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/?p=338"},"modified":"2001-10-19T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-19T16:07:00","slug":"the-pooka-life-210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"The Pooka Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading a wonderful book and I wish I had someone else to talk about it with. I think there is a lot of imagery and secondary meaning that I&#8217;m missing in this novel which is just too bad. So far, I&#8217;ve found two excellent quotes in my current novel&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way to a man&#8217;s heart is through his chest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The trick to keeping a husband is to let him understand that you know, and tolerate, and in a goofy way even love, the little flaws and imperfections that would shame and humiliate him if anybody else were ever to discover them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, my current read did inspire me to poke around for a book group and I found this group online. I like the variety of books and the discussions I&#8217;ve peeked at seem very insightful so I&#8217;m going to give it a try. That, and the fact that the next book they are going to discuss is In Cold Blood which I just read and enjoyed, decided me. Also, they only spend two weeks on each book rather than doing a chapter a week like many discussion groups. If nothing else, they have an extremely long &#8220;recommended reading&#8221; list that ought to keep me supplied with books for a very very long time. Yipee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently reading a wonderful book and I wish I had someone else to talk about it with. I think there is a lot of imagery and secondary meaning that I&#8217;m missing in this novel which is just too bad. So far, I&#8217;ve found two excellent quotes in my current novel&#8230;. &#8220;The way to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-5s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}