{"id":14168,"date":"2016-09-24T07:04:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T12:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14168"},"modified":"2016-09-23T08:29:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:29:06","slug":"oh-susann-how-i-cry-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/24\/oh-susann-how-i-cry-for-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Susann, How I Cry For Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A line from a play review for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/entertainment\/arts\/off-the-wall-theatre-takes-trashy-tour-of-valley-of-the-dolls-b99416336z1-287412631.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Valley of the Dolls<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Welcome to &#8220;Valley of the Dolls,&#8221; a spectacularly awful 1967 movie revolving around three young women whose starry dreams of showbiz glory fade faster than most New Year&#8217;s resolutions. If you somehow missed it, imagine a cross between soap operas like &#8220;Mad Men&#8221; and &#8220;Sex and the City&#8221; \u2014 mixed with a campy dose of Charles Busch \u2014 and you get the idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No mention of the book, which was the source for the film and one of the best selling novels of the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: I read the book not long before starting this blog because I saw it at a lot of garage sales and estate sales, so I picked up a copy.  I don&#8217;t tend to see that many books at garage sales these days, and if I do, it&#8217;s about having a baby and\/or small children&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A line from a play review for Valley of the Dolls: Welcome to &#8220;Valley of the Dolls,&#8221; a spectacularly awful 1967 movie revolving around three young women whose starry dreams of showbiz glory fade faster than most New Year&#8217;s resolutions. If you somehow missed it, imagine a cross between soap operas like &#8220;Mad Men&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15675,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14168\/revisions\/15675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}