{"id":3036,"date":"2007-10-04T08:56:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2007-10-04T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:56:33","slug":"a_chat_with_gar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3036","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Chat&#8221; with Garrison Keillor on his new book: Pontoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2007\/09\/28\/DI2007092801561.html\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>At the beginning of Keillor&#8217;s hilarious new novel, Evelyn sets in motion a circus of zany events when she dies in her sleep &#8212; despite the fact that she&#8217;s an inveterate insomniac. In a no-nonsense note to her daughter Barbara, Evelyn stipulates that she wishes to be cremated, with her ashes sealed up in a bowling ball and &#8220;dropped into Lake Wobegon off Rocky Point.&#8221; What&#8217;s more, in the same letter Evelyn unapologetically reveals that for years she&#8217;s been conducting a passionate love affair with a retired TV weatherman.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPontoon-Novel-Wobegon-Garrison-Keillor%2Fdp%2F0670063568%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1191506564%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=sistevietn-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Amazon link to Pontoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post: At the beginning of Keillor&#8217;s hilarious new novel, Evelyn sets in motion a circus of zany events when she dies in her sleep &#8212; despite the fact that she&#8217;s an inveterate insomniac. In a no-nonsense note to her daughter Barbara, Evelyn stipulates that she wishes to be cremated, with her ashes sealed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}