{"id":1205,"date":"2012-07-29T15:17:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T21:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2015-05-31T12:52:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T18:52:12","slug":"night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Elie Wisel, 1972 (new translation by Marion Wiesel, 2006), Hill and Wang, a division of Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, New York<\/p>\n

Compelling, horrifying, saddening – one individual’s story of his Holocaust experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, I might add, beautifully written.<\/p>\n

Reading this, I can understand why it is so difficult to believe that there exists a living God who loves each and every one of us.\u00c2\u00a0 How can this ever happen on earth if that were true?\u00c2\u00a0 Elie Wisel became convinced a benevolent God who answered his prayers did not exist when he witnessed the atrocities being committed by his fellow human beings.\u00c2\u00a0 This book not only calls us to remember the Holocaust so that it can never be repeated, but it also raises questions as to how God, if he exists as a god who loves us, would ever permit this to happen to anyone.<\/p>\n

The prose in this book is so compact and powerful, that it is extremely easy to read.\u00c2\u00a0 Only the content makes it difficult to get through.\u00c2\u00a0 After reading it, though, I am grateful to the author for sharing his experience, as painful and difficult as that effort may have been.\"5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Elie Wisel, 1972 (new translation by Marion Wiesel, 2006), Hill and Wang, a division of Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, New York Compelling, horrifying, saddening – one individual’s story of his Holocaust experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, I might add, beautifully written. Reading …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[18,16,21],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-five-star","tag-memoir","tag-non-fiction","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}