{"id":595,"date":"2011-02-23T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T11:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2017-04-05T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T12:28:10","slug":"nt-the-grapes-of-laugh-doug-pike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/nt-the-grapes-of-laugh-doug-pike\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW TITLE: The Grapes of Laugh by Doug Pike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please welcome a new author to Mushroom eBooks: <a title=\"Doug Pike page on Mushroom eBooks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mushroom-ebooks.com\/authors\/pike_doug\/dougpike.html\">Doug Pike<\/a>. Doug is a syndicated cartoonist, and a 17-year member of the National Cartoonists Society. For the past six years, he has focused on wine cartoons. They have been featured on world-famous wine critic Robert Parker\u2019s web site, www.eRobertParker.com and formed the basis for his first book, <em>Gone With The Wine<\/em>, which won the 2009 US Gourmand World Cookbook Award for wine illustration.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/grapes-cover-portrait-200x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-599\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"The Grapes of Laugh cover\" src=\"http:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/grapes-cover-portrait-200x300-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/grapes-cover-portrait-200x300-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/grapes-cover-portrait-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"The Grapes of Laugh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mushroom-ebooks.com\/authors\/pike_doug\/grapesoflaugh.html\">The Grapes of Laugh<\/a><\/em> is a new collection of 100 wine cartoons, available now from <a title=\"The Grapes of Laugh for the Kindle\" href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/2FdJ\">Amazon for the Kindle<\/a>, Mobipocket, and in PDF format from numerous ebook stores including Fictionwise, Scribd.com and WOWIO.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that although the cartoons are presented in full glorious colour, the cartoons will appear in grayscale\/black and white on non-colour reading devices.<\/p>\n<p>The blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Grapes of Laugh<\/em> is the second collection of wine cartoons by syndicated cartoonist Doug Pike. It contains one hundred laugh-out-loud cartoons portraying situations from the vineyard, to the retailer, to the consumer. Doug\u2019s wry sense of humor bursts through loud and clear in every one, not unlike the Champagne cork he put through his neighbor\u2019s stained-glass window last New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please welcome a new author to Mushroom eBooks: Doug Pike. Doug is a syndicated cartoonist, and a 17-year member of the National Cartoonists Society. For the past six years, he has focused on wine cartoons. They have been featured on world-famous wine critic Robert Parker\u2019s web site, www.eRobertParker.com and formed the basis for his first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[71,70,72,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-new-books","7":"tag-cartoons","8":"tag-doug-pike","9":"tag-humor","10":"tag-humour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mushroom-ebooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}