{"id":2439,"date":"2005-06-29T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2010-04-20T22:53:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T03:53:48","slug":"book-report-modern-manners-by-p-j-orourke-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/29\/book-report-modern-manners-by-p-j-orourke-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Modern Manners by P.J. O&#8217;Rourke (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I don&#8217;t know where I got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/087113375X\/qid=1120045472\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-0718025-3844857?v=glance&#038;s=books\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a>, but all evidence seems to indicate that I paid $2.00 for it.  Of course, since it&#8217;s P.J. O&#8217;Rourke, of course I would.<\/p>\n<p>The book features trademark O&#8217;Rourke humor, but its from his early, Reagan and Bush era stuff, which means it&#8217;s not as hard-hitting and topical as the work he&#8217;s created after Clinton became president.  Ergo, its subject matter and style more closely tracks the <i>The Bachelor Home Companion<\/i> (oddly enough, 1997 and not as early as I&#8217;d originally thought).  The humor is more collegiate, but it has its flashes of O&#8217;Rourkean brilliance.  But the nugget sized sections really don&#8217;t give O&#8217;Rourke enough room to work up a full head of rhetorical steam.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s a good book, but not the best in the O&#8217;Rourke obra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I don&#8217;t know where I got this book, but all evidence seems to indicate that I paid $2.00 for it. Of course, since it&#8217;s P.J. O&#8217;Rourke, of course I would. The book features trademark O&#8217;Rourke humor, but its from his early, Reagan and Bush era stuff, which means it&#8217;s not as hard-hitting and topical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","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=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6230,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/6230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}