{"id":413,"date":"2009-06-22T22:13:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T05:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/?p=413"},"modified":"2009-08-03T23:35:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T06:35:39","slug":"three-girls-and-their-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/three-girls-and-their-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Girls and Their Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><i>Three Girls and Their Brother<\/i><\/h3>\n<p><b>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theresarebeck.com\/\">Theresa Rebeck<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n[cover name=threegirlsandtheirbrother]<\/p>\n<p>Daria, Polly, and Amelia, along with their brother Philip, are the grandchildren of a famous (dead) literary critic. The three sisters become major celebrities when <i>The New Yorker<\/i> publishes a photo of them. Daria, Polly, and their mom are thrilled. Daria wants to be a model, Polly <i>loves<\/i> to be the center of attention, and mom was almost Miss America and really wants her daughters to be famous. Amelia, on the other hand, has a special talent for seeing disasters coming, and Philip is smart enough to know trouble when he sees it.<\/p>\n<p>The sisters get thrown into modeling, show biz, and the theater, where they meet the kinds of strange people who prey on celebrities &#8211; paparazzi, publicists, and a creepy fortysomething guy with a crush on the fourteen-year-old sister. The author, who has worked in the television industry, makes fun of all of these people.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=vxeOYiwx8e0C&#038;printsec=frontcover\">read some of it online<\/a>, you can, thanks to Google Books.<\/p>\n<p>[starratingmulti id=&#8221;1&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>Where to Find It<\/h3>\n<p>[librarylist]<br \/>\n[librarydate]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Girls and Their Brother <\/p>\n<p>by Theresa Rebeck [cover name=threegirlsandtheirbrother]<\/p>\n<p>Daria, Polly, and Amelia, along with their brother Philip, are the grandchildren of a famous (dead) literary critic. The three sisters become major celebrities when The New Yorker publishes a photo of them. Daria, Polly, and their mom are thrilled. Daria wants to be a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[116,81,53,48,37,61,22,60],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-alex-award-winner","tag-beauty","tag-celebrity","tag-family","tag-fashion","tag-satire","tag-strong-female-characters","tag-teen","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}