{"id":1285,"date":"2010-08-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:06:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:06:03","slug":"star-island-by-carl-hiaasen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"Star Island by Carl Hiaasen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Star-Island.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Star-Island-202x300.jpg\" width=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Star Island&#8221; is Carl Hiaasen&#8217;s latest book and it is a hoot (sorry, couldn&#8217;t resist). Its about a young lady who, although she can&#8217;t sing, is a superstar and acts the part. She does drugs and alocohol to excess, stays way out way too late, and pretty much sleeps with anyone who stands still long enough. She pulls a few shenanigans and gets cross-ways with a paparazzi who wants revenge. Throw in two very greedy, uncaring parents, a music promoter, a former Florida governor who disappeared into the swamps years ago and a body guard with a weed eater for a hand this book is very funny.<\/p>\n<p>Note, unlike &#8220;Hoot&#8221; which was a book for young adults, this is definitely rated &#8220;R.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I rate this book at 3 stars out of 5. It is a good read but I didn&#8217;t just love it.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlhiaasen.com\/index.shtml\">Hiaasen&#8217;s web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a trailer for the book. <\/p>\n<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"640\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FPkqJMjL1Q8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FPkqJMjL1Q8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Star Island&#8221; is Carl Hiaasen&#8217;s latest book and it is a hoot (sorry, couldn&#8217;t resist). Its about a young lady who, although she can&#8217;t sing, is a superstar and acts the part. She does drugs and alocohol to excess, stays way out way too late, and pretty much sleeps with anyone who stands still long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}