{"id":3716,"date":"2015-05-15T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2015-05-15T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T17:01:47","slug":"i-am-not-myself-these-days-by-josh-kilmer-purcell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3716","title":{"rendered":"I am not myself these Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3741\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3741\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1261878\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3741\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/I-Am-Not-Myself-These-Days-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"I Am Not Myself These Days\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/I-Am-Not-Myself-These-Days-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/I-Am-Not-Myself-These-Days.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some of you may recognize the author&#8217;s name &#8212; he\u00a0one half of the Fabulous Beekman Boys! \u00a0But before that&#8230;well let&#8217;s just say Josh had a very different life. \u00a0In the mid &#8217;90s he was working in the advertising business by day and by night he was known as Aqua, a 7-foot-tall drag queen who wore a live goldfish in a bowl as part of his costume. \u00a0As his night life of clubs and drinking begins to spill over into his day life, he ultimately saw that he had to make a change. \u00a0His writing\u00a0is funny and witty and tells an amazing story that also is quite sad. Worth a read, especially if you&#8217;d like to contrast the before and after\u00a0Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may recognize the author&#8217;s name &#8212; he\u00a0one half of the Fabulous Beekman Boys! \u00a0But before that&#8230;well let&#8217;s just say Josh had a very different life. \u00a0In the mid &#8217;90s he was working in the advertising business by day and by night he was known as Aqua, a 7-foot-tall drag queen who wore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I am not myself these Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-chris-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}