{"id":4968,"date":"2009-11-21T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2010-01-04T07:04:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T13:04:19","slug":"book-report-america-on-six-rubles-a-day-by-yakov-smirnoff-1987-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/21\/book-report-america-on-six-rubles-a-day-by-yakov-smirnoff-1987-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: America on Six Rubles a Day by Yakov Smirnoff (1987, 1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed Yakov Smirnoff&#8217;s humor back in the old days (those 1980s again) when his America vs. the USSR and incredulous immigrant schtick brought a unique perspective to being an American.  This book recreates a bunch of those moments, and since I can remember what that was like, I can still laugh with it.  Since I&#8217;m seeing the USA of today turn into that USSR of his humor, it&#8217;s not humor without sadness.<\/p>\n<p>I know Mr. Smirnoff has continued to work the comedy thing, so I have to wonder how much I&#8217;ll enjoy the contemporary Yakov.  Since I&#8217;m in Springfield, where Professor Smirnoff teaches at MSU and near where he has a theater at Branson, I&#8217;ll find out, certainly.  I might even run into him on the street someday.<\/p>\n<p>So consider this review a preliminary suck-up.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=0394755235\" 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>I enjoyed Yakov Smirnoff&#8217;s humor back in the old days (those 1980s again) when his America vs. the USSR and incredulous immigrant schtick brought a unique perspective to being an American. This book recreates a bunch of those moments, and since I can remember what that was like, I can still laugh with it. Since [&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-4968","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\/4968","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=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}