{"id":3183,"date":"2011-03-25T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2011-03-25T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T10:00:18","slug":"demotivation-with-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=3183","title":{"rendered":"Demotivation with a Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was poking around looking for a demotivational poster for a friend who recently decided to close her restaurant (don&#8217;t worry; she&#8217;s thrilled about it), and came across a new item at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.despair.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Despair, Inc.<\/a>, home of the kind of irony and cynicism I just can&#8217;t help loving.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been aware of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.despair.com\/lithographs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posters<\/a> (&#8220;the strongest depressant you can get without a prescription) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.despair.com\/15ozcoffeemugs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mugs<\/a> (&#8220;welcome to your latest drinking problem&#8221;) for a long time, but didn&#8217;t know they&#8217;d branched out into children&#8217;s literature. (Although, why should I be surprised? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlubar.com\/celeb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everyone else<\/a> is doing it, according to wag David Lubar.)<br \/>\nSo I present for your viewing amusement (or not): The Lose Your Own Adventure Series.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_3184\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.despair.com\/loseyourownadventure.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3184\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3184\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/aboutlyoa-2-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despair, Inc.&#39;s newest addition to their line of spoofy &#39;demotivational&#39; items<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nAny other children&#8217;s book spoofs out there we should know about? I know I saw another hilarious one recently, but darned if my middle-aged brain can locate it. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was poking around looking for a demotivational poster for a friend who recently decided to close her restaurant (don&#8217;t worry; she&#8217;s thrilled about it), and came across a new item at Despair, Inc., home of the kind of irony and cynicism I just can&#8217;t help loving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}