{"id":38,"date":"2008-07-28T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=38"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:08","slug":"in-her-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/in-her-shoes","title":{"rendered":"In Her Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/tag\/0-hearts\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/0hearts.gif\" alt=\"In Her Shoes - 0 hearts\" align=\"right\"><\/a>I can&#8217;t believe Jennifer Weiner&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743418204\/lawless03-20\" target=\"_blank\">In Her Shoes<\/a> was actually made into a movie &#8211; actually I can. It&#8217;s for people who like to laugh at (not with) other people. One of the main characters, Maggie, is mean, spiteful, selfish, greedy, and a bitch (not to put too fine a point on it). Oh, and she&#8217;s thin and lovely. Her sister, Rose, is kind, generous, forgiving, yada, yada, plain, and fat. Maybe it&#8217;s because I only have brothers, but I just can&#8217;t buy into a story where one sister could be so horrible (steal repeatedly from your sister and sleep with her boyfriend, anyone?) and the other would forgive her so easily. The mean-but-pretty and kind-but-fat stereotype is just lame, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/unbelievable-characters\/\">unbelievable characters<\/a> abound, and I couldn&#8217;t find any redeeming qualities anywhere in the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe Jennifer Weiner&#8217;s In Her Shoes was actually made into a movie &#8211; actually I can. It&#8217;s for people who like to laugh at (not with) other people. One of the main characters, Maggie, is mean, spiteful, selfish, greedy, and a bitch (not to put too fine a point on it). Oh, and [&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_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":[52,27,51],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit-books","tag-0-hearts","tag-american-chick-lit","tag-jennifer-weiner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrK2-C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}