{"id":1879,"date":"2013-12-01T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2013\/12\/sunday-review-dear-boy-by-emily-berry.html\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T19:10:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:10:33","slug":"sunday-review-dear-boy-by-emily-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2013\/12\/sunday-review-dear-boy-by-emily-berry.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Review: &#8216;Dear Boy&#8217; by Emily Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/izquotes.com\/quotes-pictures\/quote-wine-dear-boy-and-truth-alcaeus-302831.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/izquotes.com\/quotes-pictures\/quote-wine-dear-boy-and-truth-alcaeus-302831.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div><br \/>It&#8217;s amazing the things you can come across when you type poetry titles into Google Images. I&#8217;ve just found out that <i><b><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Dear Boy<\/span><\/b><\/i>, which is a book by <b><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Emily Berry<\/span><\/b>, is also a manga series about young Japanese men playing basketball (I&#8217;m not going to make fun of that, you can&#8217;t, it would be like shooting on the red cross). Go figure the connection. I was wondering whether Berry might not have been inspired by that particular comic, but <b><span style=\"color: #990000;\">Judi Sutherland<\/span><\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/drfulminare.com\/berryreview.php\">assures me that&#8217;s not the case in her review<\/a>.<br \/><br \/>It&#8217;s about something else entirely. *sigh* &#8230;still waiting for someone to pull off an epic poem about Naruto&#8230;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s amazing the things you can come across when you type poetry titles into Google Images. I&#8217;ve just found out that Dear Boy, which is a book by Emily Berry, is also a manga series about young Japanese men playing basketball (I&#8217;m not going to make fun of that, you can&#8217;t, it would be like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2013\/12\/sunday-review-dear-boy-by-emily-berry.html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday Review: &#8216;Dear Boy&#8217; by Emily Berry&#8221;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}