{"id":1898,"date":"2013-10-04T03:31:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T21:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2013-10-04T03:31:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T21:31:24","slug":"the-lousy-adult-coming-soon-to-a-bookstore-near-you-if-theres-one-left-online-shopping-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/04\/the-lousy-adult-coming-soon-to-a-bookstore-near-you-if-theres-one-left-online-shopping-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;The Lousy Adult&quot; Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (If There&#039;s One Left: &quot;Online Shopping, Anyone?&quot;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog of late, working to finish a first draft of a new novel, one that involves a woman holding a teenage boy hostage, some experimental sex-drug studies, and other various mischief, but advance copies of my new book of stories, <em>The Lousy Adult<\/em>, have just arrived. Of course I&#8217;m tickled pink (like the cover). Two of my all-time favorites are included, &#8220;What Happens to Rain?&#8221; and &#8220;This Whatever We Have.&#8221; Most of the stories are set in the West, where there&#8217;s always a lonesome train whistle blowin&#8217;. Or at least the wind, while a Neil Young song plays in the background.<a href=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1bookjacket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1901\" title=\"1bookjacket\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/1bookjacket-651x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"1006\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog of late, working to finish a first draft of a new novel, one that involves a woman holding a teenage boy hostage, some experimental sex-drug studies, and other various mischief, but advance copies of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/04\/the-lousy-adult-coming-soon-to-a-bookstore-near-you-if-theres-one-left-online-shopping-anyone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[55,85,95,170,178],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-the-west","tag-book-reviewing","tag-fiction-writing","tag-good-fiction","tag-the-lousy-adult","tag-the-west"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}