{"id":2775,"date":"2010-06-05T23:12:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T03:12:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-05T23:12:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T23:12:26","slug":"summer-rock-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/summer-rock-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Rock Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOT a summer rock read.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for summer – not the sweat, which I’m already feeling, and not so much the imagery of Beach Boys’ songs, which is only so attainable as a middle-aged guy in my part of the country, but fresh tomatoes and hot peppers, baseball’s dog days of summer, and my wife and kids being done with school and having more time to relax and be in a good mood when I get home from work. I’m also looking forward to some vacation time and a little more time to read. I’m just beginning to read The World in Six Songs<\/em>, by Daniel Levitan, with Bulgakov’s A Dead Man’s Memoir<\/em> on deck. I expect that these will both pull on my brain power, so I’d also like to have some summer rock reads in my back pocket, for those hot days on the beach, when all I can handle are previously unheard tales of creativity and debauchery. I’m sure we could all use some suggestions for summer rock books. What would you suggest?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOT a summer rock read. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for summer – not the sweat, which I’m already feeling, and not so much the imagery of Beach Boys’ songs, which is only so attainable as a middle-aged guy in my part of the country, but fresh tomatoes and hot peppers, baseball’s […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}