{"id":3913,"date":"2007-07-28T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2017-11-25T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T19:46:03","slug":"book-report-sweet-and-sour-by-andrew-a-rooney-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/book-report-sweet-and-sour-by-andrew-a-rooney-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Sweet and Sour by Andrew A. Rooney (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book collects a number of Andy Rooney&#8217;s newspaper work from the late 1980s and early 1990s.  As they&#8217;re not based on current events, they&#8217;re aging well, although a couple of his cast-off ideas have come to pass (a news scanner?  Hello, RSS).  As you know, I am a fan of the author (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/02\/7523\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>Years of Minutes<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/13\/book-report-word-for-word-by-andrew-a-rooney-1986\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>Word for Word<\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>So I like the author, I read his books, and I get, more and more as I age, where he&#8217;s coming from.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the book finishes with a couple of eulogies that Rooney wrote for some long time friends and co-workers, which is a real downer of a way to end a book; coupled with the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/book-report-tangled-vines-edited-by-lyn-lifshin-1992\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>Tangled Vines<\/i><\/a> ended with eulogies, and suddenly old Brian is feeling a bit of end-of-life melancholy.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0425142329&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book collects a number of Andy Rooney&#8217;s newspaper work from the late 1980s and early 1990s. As they&#8217;re not based on current events, they&#8217;re aging well, although a couple of his cast-off ideas have come to pass (a news scanner? Hello, RSS). As you know, I am a fan of the author (see also [&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-3913","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\/3913","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=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17930,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions\/17930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}