{"id":2145,"date":"2008-02-19T23:50:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T23:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2145.html"},"modified":"2008-02-19T23:52:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T23:52:26","slug":"charlie-brooker-dawn-of-the-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2008\/02\/19\/charlie-brooker-dawn-of-the-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Brooker &#8211; <i>Dawn Of The Dumb<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-and-a-half star rating deserves some explanation:  I think Charlie Brooker is great, and many of the pieces in <i>Dawn Of The Dumb<\/i> (a collection of his TV criticism and columns for <i>The Guardian<\/i> from 2004-2007) and hysterically funny, but at book length, his vitriolic style becomes grating.  If you enjoy cutting put-downs and cynical rants, you&#8217;re in the right place&#8211;just take it in small doses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-and-a-half star rating deserves some explanation: I think Charlie Brooker is great, and many of the pieces in Dawn Of The Dumb (a collection of his TV criticism and columns for The Guardian from 2004-2007) and hysterically funny, but at book length, his vitriolic style becomes grating. If you enjoy cutting put-downs and cynical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_25_stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}