{"id":533,"date":"2005-09-27T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2005-09-27T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T12:12:00","slug":"book-club-the-alcohol-drug-free-way-to-recapture-your-college-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Book Club: The Alcohol &amp; Drug-Free Way To Recapture Your College Years."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like my book club. We meet every 6 weeks or so, and talk and drink wine &#038; eat really good food. We&#8217;ve read some awesome books, too. Life of Pi, Bel Canto &#038; The Kite Runner to name a few. (All standard good book club books.)  Last gathering, half the attendees didn&#8217;t read the book, yours truly included. (The book was not to my liking.) The latest book is quite good, &#8220;The Secret History&#8221; by Donna Tartt, and three guesses as to who was cramming half the book the night before book club?<\/p>\n<p>MOI? But I bought the book right away &#038; began reading it right away. And when I reflected on this, ohhhh, I saw this blazing pattern in lights and shimmery stars, to how I approached EVERY assignment in college. Start early, set it down, party party party, cram it finished in the final approach. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reliving my youth, plain and simple, only without the hangovers or grade cards. Now, I&#8217;m almost done with the book, and I&#8217;ve got &#8217;til 7p tonight. And? It&#8217;ll be fresh in my mind! Hah! The justifications haven&#8217;t even changed over the years.  Except the beer&#8217;s been replaced with knitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like my book club. We meet every 6 weeks or so, and talk and drink wine &#038; eat really good food. We&#8217;ve read some awesome books, too. Life of Pi, Bel Canto &#038; The Kite Runner to name a few. (All standard good book club books.) Last gathering, half the attendees didn&#8217;t read the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}