{"id":681,"date":"2011-02-14T22:24:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T03:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T01:52:58","slug":"texas-rattlesnake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/books\/texas-rattlesnake\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rattlesnake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered while writing my two unauthorized wrestling biographies that I actually <em>liked<\/em> having the wrestler known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/books\/warrior-queen\/\">Chyna<\/a> living in my head. But Steve Austin &#8230; not so much.<\/p>\n<p>Joanie Laurer&#8217;s life was the tale of a women who was mocked for being different as a girl and later laughed at for trying to make it in a man&#8217;s sport, but who wouldn&#8217;t take no for an answer and eventually broke through the canvas ceiling. <\/p>\n<p>Steve Austin&#8217;s public persona, on the other hand, was that of the guy who would pop a brewski and then tell his boss to take this job and shove it. Anyone who knows me knows &#8230; I&#8217;m not that guy.<\/p>\n<p>So while it was an amazing challenge to write <em>Texas Rattlesnake<\/em>, assembling the public facts of Steve Austin&#8217;s life into a coherent story, Chyna was the one I liked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered while writing my two unauthorized wrestling biographies that I actually liked having the wrestler known as Chyna living in my head. But Steve Austin &#8230; not so much. Joanie Laurer&#8217;s life was the tale of a women who was mocked for being different as a girl and later laughed at for trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682,"parent":28,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-681","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}