{"id":2528,"date":"2007-05-10T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:29","slug":"you-really-got-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2528","title":{"rendered":"You Really Got Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the first notes of the 1964 Kink&#8217;s tune You Really Got Me, heavy metal has been on the scene. Loud and completely arresting, it is \u2026life to Sam and his crew. He knows his friends are goofy and his music is loud, and you know? He kind of likes his life like that.<\/p>\n<p>Sooo, why\u2019s he hanging out with this \u00fcber-preppy chick, who, though doubtless beautiful, is so <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 163px; height: 231px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.booksamillion.com\/bam\/covers\/0\/43\/973\/648\/043973648X.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>not a metal chick? I mean, she mistakes being a punk for being a Goth. (What\u2019s up with that!?) She always makes\u2026 remarks, like, about what Sam should be doing. About what Sam could be like. About his friends.<\/p>\n<p>Why is Sam turning down his music, ditching his friends, not getting wasted, and changing his life? Could it be love?<\/p>\n<p>Or something\u2026 more destructive?<\/p>\n<p>I LOVED this book, and I love Sam, who is completely obsessed with\u2026 heavy metal music. What we love we know best, right? Sam knows his music and he knows his heart. It\u2019s just a small matter of turning down the music long enough to listen to it\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=ReadersResponse&#038;isbn=978043973648X\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy Metal &amp; You<\/a> \u2026painfully and humorously well-written, supported with a cast of good, goofy friends and a loving family is one of the more fun  and wrenching and real books I\u2019ve read in awhile. Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the first notes of the 1964 Kink&#8217;s tune You Really Got Me, heavy metal has been on the scene. Loud and completely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,21,5],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-guy-appeal","tag-realistic-fiction","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4024,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}