{"id":821,"date":"2010-11-28T21:52:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T02:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2015-05-31T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T02:26:07","slug":"the-blue-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by James Andrew Levine, M.D., PhD, read by Meera Simhan, 2009, Random House Audio, New York<\/p>\n<p>This book depicts the plight of a child prostitute in India and does it extremely well.\u00c2\u00a0 Were it not for the disgusting subject matter, I could have rated the book a lot higher.\u00c2\u00a0 The author attempts to make the story more compelling by giving the child a degree of literary talent.\u00c2\u00a0 She keeps a notebook in which she relates all of the experiences in her horrible life.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition to describing specific incidents, she also writes allegorical stories in this notebook.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite this attempt to give the book some additional redeeming value, the book depicts one disgusting situation after another in great detail.<\/p>\n<p>It is a sad state of affairs that these conditions exist in various areas of our globe;\u00c2\u00a0 it is also sad that it it would take an attempt at literature to bring it to our attention. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"2 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by James Andrew Levine, M.D., PhD, read by Meera Simhan, 2009, Random House Audio, New York This book depicts the plight of a child prostitute in India and does it extremely well.\u00c2\u00a0 Were it not for the disgusting subject matter, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=821\"><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],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}