{"id":13159,"date":"2017-01-04T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13159"},"modified":"2017-01-03T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:29:10","slug":"none-of-this-was-planned-leaves-bad-taste-in-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/01\/04\/none-of-this-was-planned-leaves-bad-taste-in-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>None of This Was Planned<\/em> leaves bad taste in mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/None-of-this-Was-PlannedCMYK300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/None-of-this-Was-PlannedCMYK300-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/None-of-this-Was-PlannedCMYK300-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/None-of-this-Was-PlannedCMYK300.jpg 472w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/None-of-this-Was-PlannedCMYK300-300x445.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/None-of-this-Was-PlannedCMYK300-180x267.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <i>None of This Was Planned<\/i>, reporter Mike McCardell writes about the people he\u2019s met while trying to get stories on the streets of Vancouver. The characters he talks about range from inspirational to odd.<\/p>\n<p>When I read the title and found out what it was about, I was excited to read this. And while I started off loving the stories, I was disappointed as the book\u2014McCardell\u2019s 11th\u2014went on.<\/p>\n<p>The feel of <i>None of This Was Planned<\/i> is very conversational; it seems, for the most part, like someone who is telling all of his life stories to the reader. Now, while this is very nice and relaxing, it gets old about halfway through the 319-page book.<\/p>\n<p>I also found that the author threw in too many references to his previous books, which was unpleasant. It felt like McCardell was trying to make me go buy them, and it left a sour taste in my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s decent writing in <i>None of This Was Planned <\/i>and I quite enjoyed the first half of it, when McCardell wasn\u2019t spending too much time talking about his other books. <i>None of This Was Planned<\/i>\u2019s<i> <\/i>downfall is how similar all of the stories felt in the second half, along with the large amounts of what are basically advertisements in the writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In None of This Was Planned, reporter Mike McCardell writes about the people he\u2019s met while trying to get stories on the streets of Vancouver. The characters he talks about range from inspirational to odd. When I read the title and found out what it was about, I was excited to read this. And while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-january-4-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13162,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions\/13162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}