{"id":4636,"date":"2008-10-14T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2010-02-22T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:59:36","slug":"book-report-a-friend-forever-edited-by-susan-polis-schutz-1980-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/book-report-a-friend-forever-edited-by-susan-polis-schutz-1980-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: A Friend Forever edited by Susan Polis Schutz (1980, 1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple collection of &#8220;poems&#8221; and quotes about friendship from famous people taken from magazines.  Think of <i>Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/i>&#8216;s Quoted Quotables section, but with 70s pop art.<\/p>\n<p>Again, it&#8217;s good to read some bad poetry to remind you what good poetry is like.  And some of this is not very good.<\/p>\n<p>The strangest thing, though, is that the copy I have is from the third printing.  And the book cost <b>4.95<\/b>.  In <b>1982<\/b>.  And I guess someone was buying them.<\/p>\n<p>And, on the other hand, the editor and author of many of the poems within founded the company that published this book and created BlueMountain.com, which they sold to Excite for $780 million.  So she&#8217;s got that going for her.  Me?  I&#8217;ve published a couple of chapbooks and have a couple cool blogs.<\/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=B0018RZJ78&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#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 is a simple collection of &#8220;poems&#8221; and quotes about friendship from famous people taken from magazines. Think of Reader&#8217;s Digest&#8216;s Quoted Quotables section, but with 70s pop art. Again, it&#8217;s good to read some bad poetry to remind you what good poetry is like. And some of this is not very good. The strangest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","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=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5549,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/5549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}