{"id":52,"date":"2007-07-27T20:13:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T03:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2015-06-07T05:44:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T11:44:43","slug":"a-thousand-splendid-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Splendid Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Khalid Housseini, 2007<\/p>\n<p>This book is well worth reading, although it drags a bit during the first part of the book and it does not read quite as well as <em>The Kite Runner<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The book provides the reader with a compelling story of individuals that is integrated with a view of the culture and history of Afghanistan. \u00c2\u00a0I continue to be amazed by the author&#8217;s command of the English language and the readibility of his prose.<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-4-5.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Khalid Housseini, 2007 This book is well worth reading, although it drags a bit during the first part of the book and it does not read quite as well as The Kite Runner.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The book provides the reader with a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=52\"><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":[15],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}