{"id":2331,"date":"2009-07-08T17:46:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T22:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2009-07-08T17:46:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T22:46:04","slug":"priceless-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"Priceless Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t really love Bob Barker, though maybe I did when I was a kid and got to stay home from school sick and watch Price is Right. I only barely remember Truth or Consequences. Now that he’s no longer the host of Price is Right, it seems kind of sad. Not like I’m old, exactly, just like the end of a very very long era. <\/p>\n

So yea, when I saw Priceless Memories<\/a> on the library shelf, I didn’t pick it up. I went home and reserved it in large print because I thought TW’s mom might also like to read it. She did. TW enjoyed it too. <\/p>\n

I didn’t find the book well written, as autobiographies of stars often are – it was redundant and not super well written. But I did definitely enjoy the flashbacks and the looks into Barker’s life, from Barker’s point of view. I just with Dorothy Jo had written a book before she died. Now that would have been a book to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t really love Bob Barker, though maybe I did when I was a kid and got to stay home from school sick and watch Price is Right. I only barely remember Truth or Consequences. Now that he’s no longer the host of Price is Right, it seems kind of sad. Not like I’m old, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,3,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95","category-books","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}