{"id":9576,"date":"2010-12-08T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=9576"},"modified":"2010-11-26T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T17:07:10","slug":"dear-mrs-fitzsimmons-by-greg-fitzsimmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/dear-mrs-fitzsimmons-by-greg-fitzsimmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons by Greg Fitzsimmons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox<\/a><\/strong> <\/em> is the autobiography of comedian\/writer Greg Fitzsimmons.\u00a0\u00a0 Arguably, he\u2019s the most cerebral and grounded working comic out there.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the reward for this distinction within the current media dungscape is relative obscurity.<\/p>\n

The framework of the\u00a0narrative from cradle to his own fatherhood is upheld with periodic instances of actual letters recovered from his parents\u2019 drawers charting his emotional development.\u00a0 Usually, these take shape as disciplinary referrals from teachers and deeply-offended entertainment venues.<\/p>\n

The underlying thread of the book is the predestiny of\u00a0\u00a0being a hard-living Boston Irish Catholic.\u00a0 While felling his friends and family, ultimately, \u201cFitzdog\u201d breaks the cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox is the autobiography of comedian\/writer Greg Fitzsimmons.\u00a0\u00a0 Arguably, he\u2019s the most cerebral and grounded working comic out there.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the reward for this distinction within the current media dungscape is relative obscurity. The framework of the\u00a0narrative from cradle to his[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":[165],"class_list":["post-9576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2us","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576","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=9576"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}