{"id":2729,"date":"2021-04-19T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2021-04-19T10:51:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:51:41","slug":"the-girl-with-seven-names-a-north-korean-defectors-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Hyeonseo Lee, 2015, Kindle Edition, William Collins<\/p>\n<p>If her story is all true, this is a great book about an incredible journey to freedom.&nbsp; Each chapter ends with, Oh, No! What Next?&nbsp; Just when you think she is finally out of danger, along comes something else that puts her even more in danger.&nbsp; The narrative is compelling and keeps you wanting to know how the heck she managed to do what she did.<\/p>\n<p>The author also nails what it must be like to migrate from a totally controlled dictatorship, where all of your decisions are made for you by the state, to a country where all of your decisions are your own, including the responsibility for the consequences.&nbsp; Also, in many totally free countries, discrimination exists which makes it difficult to succeed unless you have a certain pedigree.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed reading this book, even though parts of it were painful to imagine.&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"4.5 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-4-5.gif\" alt=\"4.5 stars\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Hyeonseo Lee, 2015, Kindle Edition, William Collins If her story is all true, this is a great book about an incredible journey to freedom.&nbsp; Each chapter ends with, Oh, No! What Next?&nbsp; Just when you think she is finally <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2729\"><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":[5,14],"tags":[18,16],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-memoir","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}