{"id":1593,"date":"2013-06-18T07:29:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T11:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2013-06-18T07:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T11:30:05","slug":"teardown-memoir-of-a-vanishing-city-by-gordon-young-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City by Gordon Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Teardown by Gordon Young\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teardownbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1594\" alt=\"teardown-cover-150x227\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/teardown-cover-150x227.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you call yourself a Michigander (or even a Michiganian, which isn&#8217;t nearly as fun), you have <strong>got<\/strong> to read this book. &#8220;Teardown&#8221; is by Gordon Young, a classmate of my sister&#8217;s at Flint Powers. Gordie is a writer who lives in San\u00a0Francisco\u00a0and of the author of the <a title=\"Flint Expats\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flintexpats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FlintExpats<\/a> blog. He is a wonderfully skilled storyteller who does a beautiful job of capturing what it is like to be from Michigan, and specifically Flint. That odd sense of pride and disappointment &#8212; of having survived and grateful to be gone, yet still finding yourself caring and still connected to the community. It&#8217;s really a terrific summer read &#8212; hilarious, melancholy, hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>Gordie is coming to Michigan this week for a book tour. Here&#8217;s a <a title=\"Teardown by Gordon Young\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teardownbook.com\/upcoming-events\/\" target=\"_blank\">link to his site<\/a>. There are also links there for places to go to buy the book. Make a point of coming out to see him. I plan to be at his Wednesday, June 26th visit to Barnes and Noble at Woodland Mall in Grand Rapids (6:30-7:30PM). Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you call yourself a Michigander (or even a Michiganian, which isn&#8217;t nearly as fun), you have got to read this book. &#8220;Teardown&#8221; is by Gordon Young, a classmate of my sister&#8217;s at Flint Powers. Gordie is a writer who lives in San\u00a0Francisco\u00a0and of the author of the FlintExpats blog. He is a wonderfully skilled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}