{"id":732,"date":"2014-05-22T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2014-05-22T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:05:46","slug":"monkey-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22069173-monkey-in-a-pink-canoe\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1399845465m\/22069173.jpg\" alt=\"Monkey in a Pink Canoe\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22069173-monkey-in-a-pink-canoe\">Monkey in a Pink Canoe<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/975946.Allen_Smith\">Allen Smith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/944842440\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I published this book, but it helps to understand that first and foremost I&#8217;m a reader. When I read the manuscript for this book I had on my \u201dcritical and serious acquisitions editor\u201d hat. I was prepared, as I am with most manuscripts I read, to throw it in the reject pile. There was just one problem. This silly book made me laugh even when I didn\u2019t want to. Allen has a gift for seeing the world from absurdist\u2019s point of view for whatever subject he tackles, and as long as you don&#8217;t suffer from the incurable disorder of irony impairment, you&#8217;ll laugh too. You&#8217;ve been warned Mr. Grumpy Face.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/16451920-monica-paxson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monkey in a Pink Canoe by Allen Smith My rating: 5 of 5 stars I published this book, but it helps to understand that first and foremost I&#8217;m a reader. When I read the manuscript for this book I had on my \u201dcritical and serious acquisitions editor\u201d hat. I was prepared, as I am with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.relentlesslycreativebooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}