{"id":4861,"date":"2005-10-30T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:17:03","slug":"latest_column_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4861","title":{"rendered":"Latest column by my neighbor, author Sue Konig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have this very interesting and charming neighbor, Sue Konig. She&#8217;s a writer and recently published a very witty book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/031233236X\/qid=1130728118\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/002-7136214-0716051?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">Amazon.com: Books: Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road (and Other Lies I Tell My Children)<\/a> which I&#8217;ve been giving as a gift to many of my friends. A nice breezy, funny book.<\/p>\n<p>We share a few things in common, like our children go to the same parochial school (St. Augustine&#8217;s, on the Ossining, Croton border). Sue writes free lance, &amp; here&#8217;s her latest column. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/script\/printpage.p?ref=\/skonig\/konig200510280735.asp\">http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/script\/printpage.p?ref=\/skonig\/konig200510280735.asp<\/a> It tells the tale of her oldest daughter&#8217;s first &quot;dance&quot; &#8211; in the sixth grade. My son Joe is a year older, so he had his first &quot;dance&quot; last year (Joe&#8217;s not too interested in girls, but is interested in hanging out).&nbsp; Anyone who has &#8211; or had &#8211; junior high school children will find it amusing. Sue tells me the piece was also posted by CBSNews.com, where it will get a bit more exposure then on Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have this very interesting and charming neighbor, Sue Konig. She&#8217;s a writer and recently published a very witty book, Amazon.com: Books: Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road (and Other Lies I Tell My Children) which I&#8217;ve been giving as a gift to many of my friends. A nice breezy, funny book. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9896,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions\/9896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}