{"product_id":"2940153744575","title":"False Starts: Mistakes \u0026 Missteps Growing Up In The 70s","description":"\u003cp\u003eI recently opened up my chest of childhood memories, faced a decade I had long since forgotten, and wrote these words:\u003cbr\u003e“It was the hippest of times. It was the funkiest of times. It was the 1970s.”\u003cbr\u003eAnd I grew up right there in the middle of it. I won talent shows. I went to camp. I fought the school bully for the honor of the girl I loved. I lost my father…\u003cbr\u003eBut having just turned 50, I decided the time had come to take an honest look at those years without the tinted lens of nostalgia, which allowed me to remember so much more. I never told the girl I defended that I loved her. I barely survived camp. No amount of talent show victories brought my father back and, to be honest, my memories weren’t as accurate as I thought they were.\u003cbr\u003eThe 70’s were a swirling minefield filled with a family destroyed by poverty and divorce, horrible TV shows, bad disco on AM radio, wretched food… and the only saving grace a child like me had was Pong. My teachers tried to put me on drugs. My sister taught me the art of shoplifting. My best friend was Burp Boy. Life was a series of constant set-backs, a barrage of defeats, embarrassments, and false starts.\u003cbr\u003eAnd I wouldn’t change a thing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ken La Salle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170368733424,"sku":"2940153744575","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153744575_p0.jpg?v=1764055578","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153744575","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}