{"id":4919,"date":"2009-11-10T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2009-11-02T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T18:47:29","slug":"norm-in-book-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/norm-in-book-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Norm in book form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2211336\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781439149584\/mc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=310397650&amp;client=prairiearealib\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Everyone&#8217;s favorite TV barfly George Wendt makes a foray into the author world in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2211336\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Drinking with George: A Barstool Professional&#8217;s Guide to Beer<\/em><\/a>. <\/strong> Before your inner skeptic kicks in, consider this chapter-opening confession from a proud 0.0 GPA recipient during a sojourn at Notre Dame University:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be the first to admit that I lucked into the role of Norm Peterson, a character whom I&#8217;d been training to play my whole life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Under one set of covers, Wendt gives you a mini-biography, a slew of interesting beer facts, funny beer anecdotes from his own life, and lighthearted fare regarding his Hollywood friends.\u00a0 None of these pile up too thick in any of\u00a0 this collection of 1-4 page essays, so like what the &#8220;born-on&#8221; date has done for Budweiser products, the book stays fresh.<\/p>\n<p>This title has what is known in some circles as a crisp finish and clean aftertaste.\u00a0\u00a0 The funniest and most interesting stories are in about the last third of the liter..er&#8230; book.\u00a0 But, hey, relax.\u00a0 We&#8217;re not talking War and Peace here.\u00a0 Perfect for the attention span of the mead-swiller in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s favorite TV barfly George Wendt makes a foray into the author world in Drinking with George: A Barstool Professional&#8217;s Guide to Beer. Before your inner skeptic kicks in, consider this chapter-opening confession from a proud 0.0 GPA recipient during a sojourn at Notre Dame University: &#8220;I&#8217;ll be the first<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/norm-in-book-form\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[795,175,442,896,794,103,897],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-alcohol","tag-beer","tag-biography","tag-cheers","tag-drinking","tag-memoirs","tag-television-actors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1hl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4925,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions\/4925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}