{"id":22,"date":"2005-06-19T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=22"},"modified":"2005-06-19T17:24:31","modified_gmt":"2005-06-19T21:24:31","slug":"the-misfits-by-james-howealaddin-2003-originally-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-misfits-by-james-howealaddin-2003-originally-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"The Misfits by James HoweAladdin, 2003 (originally 2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes this book is annoyingly meta-textual, like when the narrator refers to things that are going to happen, or calls other characters &#8220;characters,&#8221; but mostly it&#8217;s a quirky and cute story about a group of seventh-grade kids who are the class outcasts. I like how matter-of-factly everything is handled, how having divorced parents or a dad who used to drink too much, or a mom who died when you were a kid, or being queer (or being fat or being tall or being shy) isn&#8217;t turned into a big issue to deal with\/is just something that&#8217;s there as a part of life. I also like that how Howe doesn&#8217;t turn this into a totally unrealistic book where the unpopular kids suddenly become popular and everyone becomes friends with one another, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes this book is annoyingly meta-textual, like when the narrator refers to things that are going to happen, or calls other characters &#8220;characters,&#8221; but mostly it&#8217;s a quirky and cute story about a group of seventh-grade kids who are the class outcasts. I like how matter-of-factly everything is handled, how having divorced parents or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}