{"id":1385802,"date":"2016-02-10T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1385802"},"modified":"2016-02-09T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:40:48","slug":"gorgeous-valley-of-the-dolls-covers-to-celebrate-the-books-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/gorgeous-valley-of-the-dolls-covers-to-celebrate-the-books-50th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorgeous <i>Valley of the Dolls<\/i> Covers to Celebrate the Book&#8217;s 50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/vodcover_LargeWide.jpg\t\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/valley-of-the-dolls-jacqueline-susann\/1100054949\" target=\"_blank\">Valley of the Dolls<\/a><\/i> \u00a0came out this day in 1966, and almost instantly became a best-seller. <i>Everyone<\/i> read the book; it became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u-TXJMKVa_g\" target=\"_blank\">a film<\/a> inside a year; for whatever reason, the story of three girls who found their way into showbiz in the &#8217;40s, rose to fame, and came to rely on &#8220;uppers,&#8221; sleeping pills, and diet pills\u2014which they called &#8220;dolls&#8221;\u2014hit a nerve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley of the Dolls \u00a0came out this day in 1966, and almost instantly became a best-seller. Everyone read the book; it became a film inside a year; for whatever reason, the story of three girls   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[438,9332,21217,21219,497,21220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385802"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}