{"id":953,"date":"2011-02-26T17:29:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T22:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=953"},"modified":"2015-05-31T20:18:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T02:18:43","slug":"unbroken-a-world-war-ii-story-of-survival-resilience-and-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Unbroken, A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Laura Hillenbrand, 2010, Random House, New York<\/p>\n<p>This is an excellent biography of a World War II hero.\u00c2\u00a0 The book details the life of Louis Zamparini and how he survived a POW camp in Japan.\u00c2\u00a0 The details of the brutal treatment in the prison camp is horrific and the author does a pretty good job of showing the long-term effects on the soldiers after returning from the war.<\/p>\n<p>Hillenbrand becomes so close to her subject that it seems at times that the story is unbelievable.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite this tendency, the book is a very good read.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"four stars\" src=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-4-0.gif\" alt=\"four stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Laura Hillenbrand, 2010, Random House, New York This is an excellent biography of a World War II hero.\u00c2\u00a0 The book details the life of Louis Zamparini and how he survived a POW camp in Japan.\u00c2\u00a0 The details of the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=953\"><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":[14],"tags":[17,16,21],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-four-star","tag-biography","tag-non-fiction","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}