{"id":842,"date":"2014-05-08T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/?p=842"},"modified":"2015-03-26T16:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:30:37","slug":"book-recommendation-jason-priestley-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/book-recommendation-jason-priestley-a-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Recommendation &#8220;Jason Priestley: A Memoir&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had planned on writing the next 2K words on the current fantasy work-in-progress. But then I got sidetracked.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\" wp-image-47 alignright\" 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=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=authsuzachur-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0062247581&#038;asins=0062247581&#038;linkId=&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe>Later today, I plan on attending a book launch appearance by Jason Priestly at the Indigo in the Eaton Centre in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The event site clearly states that attendees must show proof that they&#8217;ve purchased his new book to be admitted.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to head to the Starbucks in Indigo and work there. I&#8217;d be close to the event, and I could buy the book early. Because hey, I&#8217;m a writer and we should buy books right?<\/p>\n<p>Except I&#8217;ve been watching my pennies of late, so I wanted to be sure before pulling out my credit card that the book was worth reading. <\/p>\n<p>I grabbed a copy of the book, scored a chair, and sat down to read the first few pages, maybe the first chapter, to get a feel for the book.<\/p>\n<p>Well about fifteen minutes ago I finished the book.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very well written, his recollections are interesting, and I <b>thoroughly devoured<\/b> the book.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve followed Priestly&#8217;s career at all (as an actor, producer, director, etc) then you will most likely enjoy the book. So go buy it. I even included the link for your convenience.<\/p>\n<p>If you think I&#8217;m wrong and you&#8217;re mad that you wasted your pennies, feel free to slam me in the comments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had planned on writing the next 2K words on the current fantasy work-in-progress. But then I got sidetracked. Later today, I plan on attending a book launch appearance by Jason Priestly at the Indigo in the Eaton Centre in Toronto. The event site clearly states that attendees must show proof that they&#8217;ve purchased his new book to be admitted. So I decided to head to the Starbucks in Indigo and work there. I&#8217;d be close to the event, and\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/book-recommendation-jason-priestley-a-memoir\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[72,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/suzannechurch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}