{"id":53,"date":"2006-02-15T17:49:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T22:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/thanks-to-sunni-maravillosa\/"},"modified":"2006-02-15T17:49:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T22:49:24","slug":"thanks-to-sunni-maravillosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/thanks-to-sunni-maravillosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to Sunni Maravillosa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunni Maravillosa,\u00a0probably the most optimistic freedom advocate\u00a0out there, \u00a0wrote a very informative, generous review of Attention Deficit Democracy at her zesty <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.endervidualism.com\/salon\/books\/bovard.htm\">Sunni&#8217;s Salon.<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Other parts of her February issue make my book look Presbyterian prim, if not proper).\u00a0\u00a0 Sunni commented, &#8220;<font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">Bovard&#8230; is one of very few journalists who are both pro-freedom and willing to dig&#8230; The dry wit is vintage Bovard, and is plentiful throughout Attention Deficit Democracy. 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