{"id":713,"date":"2006-11-13T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T17:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/11\/13\/a-real-horatio-alger-with-vomit-genocide\/index.html"},"modified":"2007-06-26T19:20:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T00:20:26","slug":"a-real-horatio-alger-with-vomit-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/11\/13\/a-real-horatio-alger-with-vomit-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"A Real Horatio Alger (with vomit \/ genocide)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/int\/2006\/11\/13\/eggers\/index.html\">Escape a genocide in Sudan and come to Atlanta<\/a>! A good idea, sort of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was attacked, robbed, held at gunpoint, and the Atlanta police gave him a little business card that said &#8220;Citizen Complaint&#8221; or something like that, with a phone number on it. It was like the thing you&#8217;d be given after complaining about the sound of some party next door. That&#8217;s the kind of card he got for being attacked and held at gunpoint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the fairy tale ends well, because he gets to write a book with Dave Eggers! <a href=\"http:\/\/letters.salon.com\/books\/int\/2006\/11\/13\/eggers\/permalink\/99e753ed237a7cf8cc30aa85f19273f3.html\">Get robbed and then have Dave Eggers write a book about you! It&#8217;s like the American dream, with vomit all over it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1932416641&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0375725784&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1400033543&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escape a genocide in Sudan and come to Atlanta! A good idea, sort of: He was attacked, robbed, held at gunpoint, and the Atlanta police gave him a little business card that said &#8220;Citizen Complaint&#8221; or something like that, with a phone number on it. It was like the thing you&#8217;d be given after complaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Real Horatio Alger (with vomit \/ genocide) - Prose Before Hos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Escape a genocide in Sudan and come to Atlanta! 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