{"id":49,"date":"2009-01-12T21:48:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T21:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angiewindheim.wordpress.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2009-01-12T21:48:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T21:48:16","slug":"searching-for-my-natural-hair-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Searching for My Natural Hair Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, I must say that this book is NOT for everyone. Definitely, not men. \u00a0However, if you are, or have ever been, a suburban mom, you will find an eery connection to <em>Searching for My Natural Hair Color<\/em>, by Diane Beil. This book is a very quick and easy read. \u00a0The overall plot is not even terribly interesting. But, as the comic strip <em>Dilbert<\/em> speaks to the working stiffs, <em>Hair Color<\/em>\u00a0chats to the Bunco-playing, neighborhood-dwelling ladies. Beil totally gets it. As I read, I nodded and laughed and related to the accurate descriptions of what could&#8217;ve easily been my Bunco group. The gossip, the cliques, the different personality dynamics, the bonding over life shakers (often with alcohol in hand) \u00a0like divorce, affairs, kids, health issues, going back to work, etc. It&#8217;s all there. Some of it is just laugh-out-loud funny. I almost feel a little betrayed though&#8230;like someone has let the world know about our secret goings-on, what Bunco is really all about! But seriously, it&#8217;s a book you just have to pass around to your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I must say that this book is NOT for everyone. Definitely, not men. \u00a0However, if you are, or have ever been, a suburban mom, you will find an eery connection to Searching for My Natural Hair Color, by Diane Beil. This book is a very quick and easy read. \u00a0The overall plot is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}