{"id":250,"date":"2003-04-09T20:08:15","date_gmt":"2003-04-10T03:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2003-04-09T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2003-04-10T03:08:15","slug":"a-world-between","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/04\/a-world-between\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>A World Between<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans<\/p>\n<p>I love classic books, as I&#8217;ve already said in other posts. At the same time, I know that there are a ton of incredibly good works of literature that never quite make the hit list.<\/p>\n<p>This book was co-edited by one of my professors in college, Persis Karim, who has become my friend as well. She&#8217;s a mover and a shaker, and I didn&#8217;t even know she had been involved in this book when we met. She was already on to other things.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else bought it for me as a present.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an anthology, so you can open it up to anywhere and just read for a little bit. Some of the pieces are a little hard to understand.<\/p>\n<p>But some of them grab me by the throat, they are so beautiful and evocative of things I don&#8217;t understand. Some of them make me gasp and cry.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really glad I have this book. I think I will eventually read everything in it. It wouldn&#8217;t be somehting I want to just sit down and read straight through. It&#8217;s too strong for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans I love classic books, as I&#8217;ve already said in other posts. At the same time, I know that there are a ton of incredibly good works of literature that never quite make the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/04\/a-world-between\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/04\/a-world-between\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}