{"id":94714,"date":"2015-11-17T00:23:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T07:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=94714"},"modified":"2015-10-29T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T19:27:03","slug":"fightball-dying-of-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/11\/fightball-dying-of-suck.html","title":{"rendered":"Fightball: Dying of Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote><p>\u2026 is the exaggerated and hyperbolic and mildly fictionalized story of Maj and Kallan, two wildly intelligent and hilarious sisters who navigate life from opposite ends of every point of view. Narrated by their mother, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prettyalltrue.com\/book\/fightball-dying-of-suck\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Fightball: Dying of Suck<\/em><\/a> is a book about children for readers of all ages. This first installment of <em>Fightball <\/em>chronicles, as Maj describes it, \u201cThe time our family threw our lives up into the air and moved to Oregon.\u201d Kallan, who is prone to falsehoods, hints that there are vampires and dragons and magic spells (there are none of these), because, she insists, \u201cMarketing is all about bait and switch.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A friend recommends this as a hilarious book.  I trust his judgement and pass it on to you, if you are looking for some hilarity.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 is the exaggerated and hyperbolic and mildly fictionalized story of Maj and Kallan, two wildly intelligent and hilarious sisters who navigate life from opposite ends of every point of view. Narrated by their mother, Fightball: Dying of Suck is a book about children for readers of all ages. 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