{"id":256,"date":"2005-10-26T13:54:46","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T17:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alison.com\/wordpress\/?p=256"},"modified":"2006-10-13T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T03:48:09","slug":"james-lileks-has-done-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2005\/10\/26\/james-lileks-has-done-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"James Lileks Has Done it Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    I desperately needed to get out of the house last night, so I headed off to Borders    and found &#8220;Mother Knows Worst,&#8221; by James Lileks.&nbsp; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/\">http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/<\/a>)&nbsp;    I sat in the cafe, enjoying my cappuccino, and spewing crumbs of blueberry scone all    over innocent fellow patrons.&nbsp; People kept turning around, even the ones who    were out of firing range, to see what had me in such hysterics.&nbsp; He has taken    snippets of ads and books from the 60&#8217;s and before, about baby care advice and products,    and added his side-splitting commentary on each.&nbsp; His previous work, &#8220;Gallery    of Regrettable Food&#8221; had the same effect on me.&nbsp; Both had to be read in one sitting,    and with a safe distance between me and anything that couldn&#8217;t handle food stains. <\/p>\n<p>    He does do some serious commentary, but check out the website for a taste of his humor.&nbsp;    And buy the book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I desperately needed to get out of the house last night, so I headed off to Borders and found &ldquo;Mother Knows Worst,&rdquo; by James Lileks.&nbsp; (http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/)&nbsp; I sat in the cafe, enjoying my cappuccino, and spewing crumbs of blueberry scone all over innocent fellow patrons.&nbsp; People kept turning around, even the ones who were out [&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],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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