{"id":20951,"date":"2015-12-23T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=20951"},"modified":"2015-12-19T14:29:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T19:29:19","slug":"my-book-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/23\/my-book-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"MY BOOK TOUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Stefan Kanfer,<\/strong><\/span> a biographer of Humphrey Bogart, wrote an article about the &#8220;misery called the Book Tour.&#8221; He wrote, \u201cI had planned to have dinner at my hotel, but the plane was three hours late . . .\u201d\u00a0 [<em>City Journal, <\/em>Summer 2011.]\u00a0 Also a limo driver talked too much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/book-tour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23969 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/book-tour-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"book tour\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/book-tour-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/book-tour.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a>I can handle plane delays and limo issues. I wouldn\u2019t mind a book tour. I would bring extra cough drops because I might strain my throat from talking so much about myself.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Where&#8217;s my<\/strong><\/span> book? Where&#8217;s my book?\u00a0 (Friends, don&#8217;t bring up my coming-of-age lost manuscripts.)<\/p>\n<p>I saw Jon Fine at a book reading recently. He wrote <em>Your Band Sucks, <\/em>a memoir about his bands that toured extensively in the 1990s. The book was about the quintessential non-famous band.<\/p>\n<p>I could do that.<\/p>\n<p>My limo is here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan Kanfer, a biographer of Humphrey Bogart, wrote an article about the &#8220;misery called the Book Tour.&#8221; He wrote, \u201cI had planned to have dinner at my hotel, but the plane was three hours late . . .\u201d\u00a0 [City Journal, Summer 2011.]\u00a0 Also a limo driver talked too much. I can handle plane delays and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20951"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24082,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions\/24082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}