{"id":5272,"date":"2014-06-26T22:11:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T21:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2022-11-10T09:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T09:16:48","slug":"dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5272","title":{"rendered":"Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Dry-Augusten-Burroughs\/dp\/1843541858\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Dry.jpg\" alt=\"Dry\" width=\"268\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5273\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I became aware of this book on the Hello Sunday Morning Facebook group.  AB is a good writer.  I wouldn&#8217;t say that he&#8217;s a great or brilliant writer, but he&#8217;s smart, sassy and funny.  Dry is his alcoholism memoir.  It took me a while to get going but today I&#8217;ve read the last two thirds of the book.  Unlike Running With Scissors, Dry reads like really good fiction because it has an excellent story arc.  Like Running With Scissors, it&#8217;s compellingly honest.  I&#8217;d recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I became aware of this book on the Hello Sunday Morning Facebook group. AB is a good writer. I wouldn&#8217;t say that he&#8217;s a great or brilliant writer, but he&#8217;s smart, sassy and funny. Dry is his alcoholism memoir. It took me a while to get going but today I&#8217;ve read the last two thirds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,7,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-books","category-sober"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}