{"id":167,"date":"2017-10-02T03:39:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T03:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=167"},"modified":"2020-06-17T13:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T18:24:53","slug":"buffoons-in-the-gene-pool","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/buffoons-in-the-gene-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffoons in the Gene Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/\">Richard Martin<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>ISBN 978-1935084884<br \/>\n160 pages: $16.00<br \/>\nJanuary, 2016<br \/>\nA Lavender Ink\/Fell Swoop joint venture<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/fellswoop250.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"38\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just who are the buffoons here? Reflected in bathroom and bedroom mirrors galore, you may recognize yourself or one of your selves or people you thought you knew, who are presently treading\u00a0water in the gene pool. These 40 \u201cstories\u201d will send up narrative while simultaneously sending concentric guffaws up your periscope. Strip down to your birthday suit and dive right in; there\u2019s no lifeguard on duty\u2014ever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"\u201ccenter\u201d\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard Martin offers a sitcom of stories that will melt the hearts of presidential candidates and encourage others to withdraw from online dating services.\u00a0<strong><em>Buffoons in the Gene Pool<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will take America.com by storm.<br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Al Pants<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<strong><em>The Year I Wanted to Be on Television<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard Martin\u2019s\u00a0<strong><em>Buffoons in the Gene Pool<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will soon replace every microwave in every kitchen in every possible version of Tomorrow and you will think back to this moment and weep pot roast\u2026<br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Claudia May Nostril<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<strong><em>Me &amp; My Thoughts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Repeat after me: Must reads are dead and gone; must reads are dead and gone; must reads are dead and gone.\u00a0<strong><em>Buffoons in the Gene Pool<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a must read.<br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Ant McGoogle<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<em><strong>The Ghost of Richard Brautigan<\/strong>;<\/em>\u00a0publisher of deadCpress<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Martin is a satirist. 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His characters fill in for the buffoons we are and the ones we know and love.<br \/>\n&#8211;<strong>Duck Martian<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<strong><em>Napkin Apologies<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><em>Automaton Holiday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/richard-martin\/\">Richard Martin<\/a>9781935084554<br \/>\nJust who are the buffoons here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[16],"product_tag":[74,45,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-167","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-lavender-ink","7":"product_tag-fell-swoop","8":"product_tag-fiction","9":"product_tag-richard-martin","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple","17":"berocket_lgv_grid","18":"berocket_lgv_list_grid"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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