{"id":94,"date":"2007-08-02T21:48:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T21:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/?p=94"},"modified":"2007-09-04T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T14:44:36","slug":"14k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2007\/08\/02\/14k\/","title":{"rendered":"14k?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"booktitle\">Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About<\/p>\n<div id=\"author\">Mil Millington<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookentry\"><span id=\"pulloutl\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image95\" src=\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/milargue.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About\" \/><\/span>Millington&#8217;s debut novel is inspired by some of the crazy and hilarious stories about his relationship with his long-term German girlfriend (and mother of his children) as detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe novel takes these anecdotes and fits them into a loosely plotted story of dodgy dealings and shifty politics within the university that employs his lead character, Pel.<br \/>\nLoosely plotted is generous. It basically amounts to a serious of very funny sketches that kind of hang together but not really.<br \/>\nThen again any book that features Laser tag, Triads, burial grounds and Library and IT in-jokes is hard to dislike entirely.<br \/>\nIt really is frequently laugh out loud funny but then again if you&#8217;ve been following Millington since he used to write letters into Amiga Power, like I have, this will come as no surprise.<br \/>\nHopefully one day he&#8217;ll get a hang of the telling a complete story thing and he&#8217;ll have something that I can praise to the hilt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bookrating\">Rating: B-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About Mil Millington Millington&#8217;s debut novel is inspired by some of the crazy and hilarious stories about his relationship with his long-term German girlfriend (and mother of his children) as detailed here. The novel takes these anecdotes and fits them into a loosely plotted story of dodgy dealings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,50,36,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-3","category-books","category-fiction","category-humour","category-mainstream-fiction","category-rated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}