{"id":427,"date":"2003-06-28T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-28T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=427"},"modified":"2010-06-13T17:47:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T21:47:20","slug":"427","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Working Class Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0006392466\/tomleslieca-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0006392466.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Working Class Zero\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"90\" height=\"140\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>With the new Harry Potter book out, it&#8217;s time to clear up a few others that have been sitting partially read on the bedside table for a while.  First up is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0006392466\/tomleslieca-20\">Working Class Zero<\/a> by Toronto author Rob Payne, which I picked up at Book City a few weeks ago.  It&#8217;s a light book about a guy stuck working in a dumb job at a mutual fund company in Toronto, who&#8217;s having an early midlife crisis.  Essentially, it&#8217;s a CanLit version of a Nick Hornby book, but unfortunately not as funny.  2 1\/2 out of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the new Harry Potter book out, it&#8217;s time to clear up a few others that have been sitting partially read on the bedside table for a while. First up is Working Class Zero by Toronto author Rob Payne, which I picked up at Book City a few weeks ago. It&#8217;s a light book about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}