{"id":615,"date":"2009-11-08T21:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2009-11-08T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:58:05","slug":"at-least-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/615","title":{"rendered":"At Least in the City Somewone Would Hear Me Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-616\" title=\"at least in the city\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/at-least-in-the-city.jpg?w=193\" alt=\"at least in the city\" width=\"154\" height=\"240\" \/>Rouse, Wade.\u00a0 <em>At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream:\u00a0 Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life<\/em>.\u00a0 2009.\u00a0 301p.\u00a0 Harmony House, $23.99.\u00a0 (978-0-307-45190-3).\u00a0 Gr. 10-12.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This hilarious memoir by the author of <em>America\u2019s Boy<\/em>, an earlier Rainbow selection, covers a year in Michigan when Rouse and his partner, Gary, leave their city home in St. Louis for the idyllic rustic life.\u00a0 Rouse uses Henry David Thoreau\u2019s <em>Walden<\/em> as a basis for ten \u201clife lessons\u201d for his determination to change from the selfish, shopping-crazy urban gay to a caring, happy writer satisfied with a more minimalist environment.\u00a0 Fortunately for the humor, he maintains his flamboyant attitude as the two men circumvent the rural culture in a mutual education for all. \u00a0As he details his current humiliations and victories, Rouse connects these to his struggles of growing up gay in the Ozarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rouse, Wade.\u00a0 At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream:\u00a0 Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life.\u00a0 2009.\u00a0 301p.\u00a0 Harmony House, $23.99.\u00a0 (978-0-307-45190-3).\u00a0 Gr. 10-12. This hilarious memoir by the author of America\u2019s Boy, an earlier Rainbow selection, covers a year in Michigan when Rouse and his partner, Gary, leave their city home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,262],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-at-least-in-the-city-somewone-would-hear-me-scream","tag-wade-rouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}