{"id":16,"date":"2008-07-01T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=16"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:08","slug":"coffee-and-kung-fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/coffee-and-kung-fu","title":{"rendered":"Coffee and Kung Fu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/tag\/5-hearts-award\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/5hearts.gif\" alt=\"Coffee and Kung Fu - 5 hearts award\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Though I don&#8217;t care at all about Kung Fu, I loved Karen Brichoux&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451209028\/lawless03-20\" target=\"_blank\">Coffee and Kung Fu<\/a>. The (brief) comparisons to martial arts movies are fun and even interesting, but it&#8217;s the author&#8217;s descriptions and dialogues that really make this book stand out. One line in particular, which I can&#8217;t remember exactly so I won&#8217;t ruin it by paraphrasing (it had to do with a rainbow), was so lovely that it made me shiver. This isn&#8217;t as light-hearted or funny as my other chick lit favorites, but something about it really speaks to me, so I&#8217;m still giving it 5 hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I don&#8217;t care at all about Kung Fu, I loved Karen Brichoux&#8217;s Coffee and Kung Fu. The (brief) comparisons to martial arts movies are fun and even interesting, but it&#8217;s the author&#8217;s descriptions and dialogues that really make this book stand out. One line in particular, which I can&#8217;t remember exactly so I won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,27,40],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit-books","tag-5-hearts-award","tag-american-chick-lit","tag-karen-brichoux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrK2-g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}