{"id":52,"date":"2008-08-15T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/?p=52"},"modified":"2014-11-05T17:10:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:10:07","slug":"welcome-to-my-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/welcome-to-my-planet","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to My Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/tag\/2-hearts-award\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/2hearts.gif\" alt=\"Welcome to My Planet - 2 hearts award\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Shannon Olson, the eponymous heroine of Shannon Olson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0141001771\/lawless03-20\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome to My Planet (Where English Is Sometimes Spoken)<\/a> is a mess: bad job, worse credit, crazy family, and terrible taste in men. There are a few funny moments, and the writing is pretty good, but it&#8217;s just too far out there &#8211; what kind of self-respecting woman would allow such a loser boyfriend into her life, let alone let him to treat her like that, repeatedly? And I know this is picky, but I was very distracted by the fact that the author named her allegedy fictional character after herself. I sure hope everything else was made up, because it&#8217;s a pretty sad story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Olson, the eponymous heroine of Shannon Olson&#8217;s Welcome to My Planet (Where English Is Sometimes Spoken) is a mess: bad job, worse credit, crazy family, and terrible taste in men. There are a few funny moments, and the writing is pretty good, but it&#8217;s just too far out there &#8211; what kind of self-respecting [&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":[41,27,54],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit-books","tag-2-hearts-award","tag-american-chick-lit","tag-shannon-olson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgrK2-Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/chickliterate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}