{"id":383,"date":"2008-05-28T08:02:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T13:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2008-05-28T08:08:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T13:08:15","slug":"carl-hiaasen-downhill-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/carl-hiaasen-downhill-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Hiaasen &#8211; Downhill Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hiaasen_600.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[383]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hiaasen.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"carl hiaasen\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hiaasen.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/hiaasen-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night I went to hear Carl Hiaasen give a talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/politics-prose.com\/\">Politics and Prose Bookstore<\/a> in Washington, DC.  He is promoting his new book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0307266532\/104-0553807-9763937\">Downhill Lie<\/a>&#8220;, a memoir about his foray back into the world of golf after 30 years.  I&#8217;ve had his book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0375411089\/104-0553807-9763937\">Skinny Dip<\/a>&#8221; on my queue for awhile, but haven&#8217;t read anything by him.  <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0307266532\/104-0553807-9763937\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px;' src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41iRpLjsDoL._SL210_.jpg\" alt=\"Downhill Lie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, his talk was hysterically funny, covering everything from sinking a golf cart to doing battle with rats.  Monkey golf and late-night Golf Channel adventures were also covered.  I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/audio\/index.php?q=f&#038;f=%2Fhiaasen\">recorded the talk<\/a>, and I&#8217;m officially bumping his books up on my queue (meaning I may get to them this year).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to hear Carl Hiaasen give a talk at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC. He is promoting his new book, &#8220;Downhill Lie&#8220;, a memoir about his foray back into the world of golf after 30 years. I&#8217;ve had his book, &#8220;Skinny Dip&#8221; on my queue for awhile, but haven&#8217;t read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}