{"id":60,"date":"2005-03-18T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=60"},"modified":"2005-03-18T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T16:06:00","slug":"smashed-story-of-drunken-girlhood-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2005\/03\/smashed-story-of-drunken-girlhood-by.html","title":{"rendered":"Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0670033766\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Smashed<\/a> got a bit dull.  While your own drunken exploits are always pretty entertaining, other people&#8217;s are less so.  Koren started drinking young, for sure, and continued drinking so steadily it&#8217;s hard to imagine how she made it to adulthood in one piece (and with her virginity in tact until mid-college).  It&#8217;s just not that interesting to read after a while.  There she is, drunk again.  Frankly, I think a lot of people have had more interesting adventures while drunk than she did.  <\/p>\n<p>Although she quits drinking in the end, she never does admit to alcoholism.  She just drank too much.  Which is different.  Somehow.  So the book doesn&#8217;t even serve as a good introspective look into how an alcoholic develops.  It&#8217;s nothing more than the story of a safe and spoiled girl from a well off family who carries on binge drinking beyond her college years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smashed got a bit dull. While your own drunken exploits are always pretty entertaining, other people&#8217;s are less so. Koren started drinking young, for sure, and continued drinking so steadily it&#8217;s hard to imagine how she made it to adulthood in one piece (and with her virginity in tact until mid-college). It&#8217;s just not that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addictionmental-illness","category-biosauto-biosmemoirs","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}