{"product_id":"2940171466107","title":"False Starts : Mistakes amp; Missteps Growing Up in the 70¿s","description":"I recently opened up my chest of childhood memories, faced a decade I had long since forgotten, and wrote these words:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e¿It was the hippest of times. It was the funkiest of times. It was the 1970s.¿\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003e\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\u003e\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\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd I wouldn¿t change a thing.","brand":"Fernando Crotte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179414143216,"sku":"2940171466107","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940171466107_p0.jpg?v=1763728512","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940171466107","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}