{"id":1147,"date":"2007-10-01T21:49:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T21:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2007-10-01T21:49:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T21:49:40","slug":"groonkly-bit-165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"Groonkly Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally getting back around to finishing CROOKED LITTLE VEIN. Holy fucking shit, this book disgusts me, makes me laugh, and terrifies me every other sentence.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <strong>that<\/strong> good.<\/p>\n<p>If I took to quoting my favorite lines from the book, I&#8217;d end up copying the entire thing onto the internet.  I don&#8217;t want to walk a long, treacherous road with <a href=\"http:\/\/warrenellis.com\/\">Warren Ellis<\/a>&#8216; lawyers sticking hot pokers up my ass every third step. I&#8217;ll stick to this short, and most recent, line that grabbed my interest and held it fast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"withquote\">\n<p class=\"withunquote\">I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re shaking over a contract, shaking with a bar drunk, or shaking hands with your grandpa &#8211; you never, ever let someone know how strong you are.   <br \/>&#8211;Michael McGill in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crooked_Little_Vein\">CROOKED LITTLE VEIN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally getting back around to finishing CROOKED LITTLE VEIN. Holy fucking shit, this book disgusts me, makes me laugh, and terrifies me every other sentence. It&#8217;s that good. If I took to quoting my favorite lines from the book, I&#8217;d end up copying the entire thing onto the internet. I don&#8217;t want to walk a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}