{"id":141747,"date":"2010-01-05T16:52:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T21:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2010-01-05T16:52:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T21:52:05","slug":"books-for-the-dumped-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/141747","title":{"rendered":"Books For the Dumped | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=as2&amp;path=ASIN\/074320011X&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/misc\/images\/parasitecover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"226\"\/><\/a><em><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=as2&amp;path=ASIN\/074320011X&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Parasite Rex<\/a><\/em> has made <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.lemondrop.com\/2010\/01\/06\/book-recommendations-for-the-recently-dumped\/\">a very special list of books<\/a> to read after you get dumped. To quote from Lemondrop over at the AOL collective:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><strong>Do you need something to so totally fill you with paranoia and fear that you can&#8217;t even think about the worm that just dumped you? How about a terrifying book about worms! AGH! You&#8217;ll never walk barefoot in the street again, plus you&#8217;ll be so full of disgusting factoids that you won&#8217;t even have time to mention what&#8217;s-his-name at a party &#8212; you&#8217;ll be too busy grossing people out. FTW!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would suggest waiting to find a new special someone until the book has cleared your system. I was still single while I was writing <em>Parasite Rex<\/em>, and the book made going out on dates very awkward.<\/p>\n<p><em>So, what&#8217;s your next book about?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Parasites, and why they&#8217;re totally awesome. See, like, there&#8217;s this worm that crawls across your eye&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Check, please!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, it&#8217;s a very quick test to see if your date shares your taste for the grotesque.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bNO5Ej1Nb2ilkTDZxVdf02UwziQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bNO5Ej1Nb2ilkTDZxVdf02UwziQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bNO5Ej1Nb2ilkTDZxVdf02UwziQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bNO5Ej1Nb2ilkTDZxVdf02UwziQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/wYIrZBN4ma8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/cGqa3eSw10A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parasite Rex has made a very special list of books to read after you get dumped. To quote from Lemondrop over at the AOL collective: Do you need something to so totally fill you with paranoia and fear that you can&#8217;t even think about the worm that just dumped you? How about a terrifying book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}