{"id":8999,"date":"2011-02-21T07:21:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T13:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8999"},"modified":"2011-02-20T21:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T03:53:18","slug":"book-report-the-river-of-used-to-be-by-jim-hamilton-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/book-report-the-river-of-used-to-be-by-jim-hamilton-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>The River of Used To Be<\/i> by Jim Hamilton (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a collection of columns written by the editor of the <em>Buffalo Reflex<\/em>, a paper up in Dallas County.  As such, it&#8217;s not a true memoir; instead, it&#8217;s a bit bland, driven by deadlines and the easy columns at some points.<\/p>\n<p>There are some gems in it, such as his tale about cold weather camping or a couple of his imaginative tall tales regarding Christmas.  Unfortunately, the really good things stand out so much from the common seasonal musings or the progress-is-destroying-what-I-remember templates.<\/p>\n<p>The most poignant thing about the book is outside the text: it&#8217;s dedicated to his daughter who died her freshman year of college.  <em>The same as my freshman year of college<\/em>.  There&#8217;s a column about his daughters, there&#8217;s a column about her going to school, and then a column about moving out of his house where they all lived.  I think it&#8217;s more striking because the book alludes to it and because she was born just two months before I was.  <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re deeply into Ozarkania, it might be worth a browse.<\/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=0963082930\" 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>This is a collection of columns written by the editor of the Buffalo Reflex, a paper up in Dallas County. As such, it&#8217;s not a true memoir; instead, it&#8217;s a bit bland, driven by deadlines and the easy columns at some points. There are some gems in it, such as his tale about cold weather [&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-8999","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\/8999","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=8999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}