{"id":4826,"date":"2009-05-22T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2010-02-10T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:02:09","slug":"book-report-dave-barrys-only-travel-guide-youll-ever-need-by-dave-barry-1992-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/book-report-dave-barrys-only-travel-guide-youll-ever-need-by-dave-barry-1992-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Dave Barry&#8217;s Only Travel Guide You&#8217;ll Ever Need by Dave Barry (1992, 1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, Dave Barry is a humorist.  He oozes absurdity so much he has to wear special clothing to keep from leaving a mess on furniture.  Scott Adams can&#8217;t touch Dave Barry in the sustained funny department.<\/p>\n<p>Smurphy T. Murphy loaned me a copy of Dave Barry&#8217;s history book in our shared Honors Western Civ class, and I read through it, not but not fast enough to avoid leaving a food stain when I returned it.  That was 1989.  This book came out in 1992, only three years later, and it&#8217;s taken me this long to read it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, but it&#8217;s also tragic in a way, because we know how Dave&#8217;s marriage to Beth will end, so the jokes about her divorcing him might have been funny then, but now they&#8217;re very sad.<\/p>\n<p>A historical artifact <i>and<\/i> a funny book.  Worth reading.<\/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=0345431138&#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><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, Dave Barry is a humorist. He oozes absurdity so much he has to wear special clothing to keep from leaving a mess on furniture. Scott Adams can&#8217;t touch Dave Barry in the sustained funny department. Smurphy T. Murphy loaned me a copy of Dave Barry&#8217;s history book in our shared Honors Western Civ class, [&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-4826","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\/4826","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=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}