{"id":144390,"date":"2022-03-23T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144390"},"modified":"2022-03-16T16:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T20:04:46","slug":"alissa-reviews-how-do-i-un-remember-this-unfortunately-true-stories-danny-pellegrino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=144390","title":{"rendered":"Alissa Reviews: How Do I Un-Remember This?: Unfortunately True Stories – Danny Pellegrino"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"How Do I Un-Remember This?: Unfortunately True Stories<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Podcaster Danny Pellegrino\u2019s new book will make you laugh-out-loud one minute, and shed some quick tears the next. Danny shares memories of growing up in the 1990s as a \u201ccloseted kid\u201d in a small town in the midwest, and we learn how the internet and reality television became a window into the larger, more diverse world that existed beyond his Ohio neighborhood. Danny\u2019s vulnerability when describing his battle with depression and anxiety is his way of reaching out to his fans and normalizing mental illness, and reducing the stigma of therapy.\u00a0 He describes the close relationship that he has with his family, while also detailing how isolating it felt growing up feeling like he had to hide his authentic self from everyone, including himself.<\/p>\n

Danny\u2019s passion for television, movies and eventually reality tv served as his escape while growing up, and helped lay the foundation for his success as the host of a reality television podcast. While Danny\u2019s friends and neighbors were thriving on the football and soccer fields, Danny was finding solace in Fran Fine\u2019s character in The Nanny, singing along with Britney, Brandy, and the boy bands of the 90s, and catching glimpses of a semi-naked Ryan Phillippe in the movies. Danny\u2019s memories are filled with 90s nostalgia and are relatable to anyone who remembers the 90s with any fondness at all! His honesty, vulnerability, and charm shine through every memory and story in the book. I discovered Danny\u2019s podcast as a passionate fan of Bravo TV and its shows, but you do not have to be a fan of Bravo or any other reality television outlet to enjoy this awesome book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Do I Un-Remember This?: Unfortunately True Stories Podcaster Danny Pellegrino\u2019s new book will make you laugh-out-loud one minute, and shed some quick tears the next. Danny shares memories of growing up in the 1990s as a \u201ccloseted kid\u201d in a small town in the midwest, and we learn how the internet and reality television…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":144391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alissa-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/4849535.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-ByS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144393,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144390\/revisions\/144393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}