{"id":235,"date":"2011-03-13T03:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2011-03-13T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T14:12:08","slug":"my-life-as-a-furry-red-monster-what-being-elmo-has-taught-me-about-life-love-and-laughing-out-loud-see-larger-image-see-1-customer-image-share-your-own-customer-images-publisher-learn-how-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2011\/03\/my-life-as-a-furry-red-monster-what-being-elmo-has-taught-me-about-life-love-and-laughing-out-loud-see-larger-image-see-1-customer-image-share-your-own-customer-images-publisher-learn-how-c\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>My Life as a Furry Red Monster: What Being Elmo Has Taught Me About Life, Love and Laughing Out Loud<\/i> &#8211; Kevin Clash with Gary Brozek, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I hadn&#8217;t been charmed by Kevin\/Elmo&#8217;s appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6169709\">Wait Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me<\/a>, I might not have picked this up, but my life wouldn&#8217;t have been very different. The three hours(?) I spent reading it wasn&#8217;t wasted , but one can get similar interest\/inspiration elsewhere&#8211;although Muppets make everything better, even somewhat-cloying ones like Elmo. B-, although if I had been under 25 it would have rated higher for career inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I hadn&#8217;t been charmed by Kevin\/Elmo&#8217;s appearance on Wait Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me, I might not have picked this up, but my life wouldn&#8217;t have been very different. The three hours(?) I spent reading it wasn&#8217;t wasted , but one can get similar interest\/inspiration elsewhere&#8211;although Muppets make everything better, even somewhat-cloying ones like Elmo. [&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-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}