{"id":414,"date":"2001-05-24T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-24T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=414"},"modified":"2001-05-24T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2001-05-24T19:44:00","slug":"414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depressing how few books I&#8217;ve finished recently!  I started about five, and I&#8217;m still working on four, but basically without the five-hour flights twice a week I don&#8217;t have a clear reading slot in my schedule any more.<\/p>\n<p>Bad excuse, I know.  So to feel more righteous, I&#8217;ve started reading during the sermon at church on Sundays.  Not this book, however:  <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0006480918\/tomleslieca-20\">Flyboy action figure comes with gasmask<\/a>, by Jim Munroe.  Fun and quirky, Flyboy is about a University of Toronto grad student who&#8217;s got a crush on a waitress and a bone to pick with the tobacco industry&#8230;  and a secret ability to turn into a fly.  When he finds out that the waitress also has a secret power, it&#8217;s clear that they&#8217;re made for each other.  They quickly become the Toronto Sun&#8217;s worst enemies.  I can identify with that.  4 out of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depressing how few books I&#8217;ve finished recently! I started about five, and I&#8217;m still working on four, but basically without the five-hour flights twice a week I don&#8217;t have a clear reading slot in my schedule any more. Bad excuse, I know. So to feel more righteous, I&#8217;ve started reading during the sermon at church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}