{"id":1096,"date":"2007-10-05T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2007-10-05T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T08:04:00","slug":"poodie_reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/10\/poodie_reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Poodie Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran journalist Ed Stover reviews <em>Poodie James<\/em> in today&#8217;s <em>Yakima Herald-Republic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ramsey&#8217;s journalistic writing style carries the story along. It&#8217;s a good story, too, a page-turner that offers up romance, attempted murder, a Snidely Whiplash rascal of a mayor, a Dudley Do-Right police chief, a noble bum, a nosy reporter and a whorehouse. Set in the late 1940s, there is even a visit by President Truman.<br \/>\nFinally, there is Poodie, the loveable little junk collector who becomes the target of the wrathful mayor. Put it all together and you have a book that has become a best-seller for Libros Libertad, the Surrey, British Columbia-based literary small press that published the novel in early August. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of Stover&#8217;s article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakimaherald.com\/page\/dis\/310082799814612\"target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be doing a signing and reading tomorrow, Saturday, at 2 pm at <a href=\"http:\/\/inklingsbookshop.com\/site\/\"target=\"_blank\">Inklings Bookshop<\/a> in Yakima. If you&#8217;re in the neighborhood, please drop by and say hello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran journalist Ed Stover reviews Poodie James in today&#8217;s Yakima Herald-Republic. Ramsey&#8217;s journalistic writing style carries the story along. It&#8217;s a good story, too, a page-turner that offers up romance, attempted murder, a Snidely Whiplash rascal of a mayor, a Dudley Do-Right police chief, a noble bum, a nosy reporter and a whorehouse. Set in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}