{"id":1907,"date":"2015-06-09T18:18:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T18:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2015-06-09T18:18:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T18:18:13","slug":"books-beside-me-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1907","title":{"rendered":"Books Beside Me, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is my copy of <strong>Doing It<\/strong> by <strong>Melvin Burgess<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1908\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DoingItByMelvinBurgess.jpg\" alt=\"DoingItByMelvinBurgess\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DoingItByMelvinBurgess.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DoingItByMelvinBurgess-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In October 2004 being an unaccompanied adult at a book event for teenagers was an odder thing than it is now. I&#8217;d received some curious looks by the time I reached the front of the signing queue &#8211; not least, since I was also the tallest person in it, from Melvin himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I explained I was an aspiring author as well as a <strong>massive fan<\/strong>. He shook my hand, wished me luck and wrote this lovely message in what &#8211; typically for his work &#8211; is a truthful, passionate and thrillingly fearless book that <strong>still causes trouble to this day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More of the <strong>Books Beside Me<\/strong> coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my copy of Doing It by Melvin Burgess: In October 2004 being an unaccompanied adult at a book event for teenagers was an odder thing than it is now. I&#8217;d received some curious looks by the time I reached the front of the signing queue &#8211; not least, since I was also the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patron-of-reading","category-try-this-its-brilliant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}