{"id":4124,"date":"2006-01-02T15:33:23","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2015-05-20T07:31:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T11:31:55","slug":"simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4124","title":{"rendered":"Simmons: <i>Now I Can Die in Peace<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am now reading <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1933060727\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1933060727&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=LOBQCAGZPQH2T626\">Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1933060727\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i> by the wonderful Bill Simmons Sports Guy (I bought a copy for everyone in my family this Christmas &#8211; and then couldn&#8217;t stand it and had to buy one for myself) &#8211; and I swear: I laugh out loud at something <i>on every page<\/i>.  How does he do it??  I guffaw randomly, in public, reading the damn thing.  It would be like if <a href=\"http:\/\/badnewshughes.blogspot.com\/\">Patrick Hughes <\/a>wrote a book.  Or if I could read Patrick Hughes&#8217; blog in public on the subway.  I would make a fool out of myself. People would get annoyed sitting next to me.   Simmons&#8217; chapter on El Guapo was enough to put me out of commission for about 10 minutes.  But his writing &#8211; it is just so PRO-ACTIVELY funny.  His brain thinks humorously &#8211;  not everybody&#8217;s brain does.  His brain instinctively goes for the comedy.  And I SO enjoy that sensibility.  Sometimes a joke isn&#8217;t funny &#8211; but 9 times out of 10 &#8211; the NEXT one is  &#8211; and I am telling you &#8211; it is a laugh-a-minute kind of a book.  I&#8217;ll post some excerpts when I can stop reading long enough to get to it.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1933060727&#038;asins=1933060727&#038;linkId=6DA2TYYHK57GXKBD&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am now reading Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox by the wonderful Bill Simmons Sports Guy (I bought a copy for everyone in my family &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102520,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions\/102520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}