{"id":1934,"date":"2016-01-23T20:53:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T02:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2016-01-23T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T02:57:37","slug":"the-thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by David Mitchell, audiobook narrated by Jonathan Aris and Paula Wilcox, 2010, Recorded Books<\/p>\n<p>This is a story about a clerk in the employ of the Dutch East India company in about 1800 and his experiences in Dejima, Japan.\u00c2\u00a0 The book is very interesting as it characterizes the relationships between the Dutch merchants and the xenophobic Japanese.\u00c2\u00a0 It also depicts the corruption and contempt of the Europeans toward their Japanese counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>The book was narrated very well and it was enjoyable to listen to. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David Mitchell, audiobook narrated by Jonathan Aris and Paula Wilcox, 2010, Recorded Books This is a story about a clerk in the employ of the Dutch East India company in about 1800 and his experiences in Dejima, Japan.\u00c2\u00a0 The <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1934\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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],"tags":[15,19],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-historical-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","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=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}