{"id":1906,"date":"2007-04-17T21:30:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/04\/real_lives\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T21:30:17","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T21:30:17","slug":"real_lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/real_lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/463212645\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/179\/463212645_5688bbea65.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Real Lives\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn recent years there&#8217;s been this awful new &#8220;non-fiction&#8221; genre of books develop. It started with the Dave Pelzer books which detailed his terrible upbringing. It was so bad, he got a trilogy out of it.<br \/>\nAnyway, the books sold loads with their distinctive white covers and distant looking photos. There was plenty more misery to come.<br \/>\nAnd now, Borders, instead of putting these books into biography (or indeed, fiction in some instances), has created a &#8220;Real Lives&#8221; category. What this picture does show is that there&#8217;s a certain dominant feature essential in any book of this type. Can you tell what it is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years there&#8217;s been this awful new &#8220;non-fiction&#8221; genre of books develop. It started with the Dave Pelzer books which detailed his terrible upbringing. It was so bad, he got a trilogy out of it. Anyway, the books sold loads with their distinctive white covers and distant looking photos. There was plenty more misery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}