{"id":979,"date":"2003-02-10T22:39:58","date_gmt":"2003-02-11T05:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2003\/02\/10\/my-brother-was-a-mother"},"modified":"2003-02-10T22:39:58","modified_gmt":"2003-02-11T05:39:58","slug":"my-brother-was-a-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2003\/02\/10\/my-brother-was-a-mother","title":{"rendered":"My Brother Was A Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simultaneously with a new edition of Nigey Lennon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arf.ru\/Biblio\/beingf.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Being Frank: My Time With Frank Zappa<\/i><\/a>, a new Zappa related book is coming out this June. It is written by Patrice &#8220;Candy&#8221; Zappa, Frank&#8217;s baby sister, is entitled &#8220;My Brother Was A Mother&#8221;, and focuses on the Zappa&#8217;s early &#8220;nuclear&#8221; years. From the promo: &#8220;She recounts the childhood of her immigrant father Francis Zappa, who spent his early days in Baltimore working in his father&#8217;s barber shop; tells the hilarious tale of her mother RoseMarie Zappa, who broke off a going-nowhere relationship with a boorish hockey player, then met Francis and consequently changed the course of musical history; and, of course, describes what it was like growing up with an older brother who &#8220;loved to blow things up&#8221; and who became obsessed with music at an early age.&#8221;<br \/>We&#8217;re expecting a review copy to land at Barry Towers this March. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simultaneously with a new edition of Nigey Lennon&#8217;s Being Frank: My Time With Frank Zappa, a new Zappa related book is coming out this June. It is written by Patrice &#8220;Candy&#8221; Zappa, Frank&#8217;s baby sister, is entitled &#8220;My Brother Was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2003\/02\/10\/my-brother-was-a-mother\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}