{"id":543,"date":"2008-04-24T07:26:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T12:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2008-04-24T07:26:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T12:26:46","slug":"unaccustomed-earthstories-by-jhumpa-lahiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Unaccustomed Earth:stories by Jhumpa Lahiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/syndetics.com\/hw7.pl?isbn=9780307265739\/LC.JPG&amp;client=noblp\" target=\"_parent\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float:left;border:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/syndetics.com\/hw7.pl?isbn=9780307265739\/SC.GIF&amp;client=noblp\" border=\"0\" alt=\"book jacket\" width=\"63\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a>This book contains eight short pieces of fiction with a\u00a0common theme. The characters are all immigrants from India living in the United States. Very smoothly written, the topics include dealing with aging\u00a0parents, marital infidelity, breast cancer, alcoholism, family bonds and trust.\u00a0 Reminiscent of O&#8217;Henry&#8217;s stories, many end with a touch of irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book contains eight short pieces of fiction with a\u00a0common theme. The characters are all immigrants from India living in the United States. Very smoothly written, the topics include dealing with aging\u00a0parents, marital infidelity, breast cancer, alcoholism, family bonds and trust.\u00a0 Reminiscent of O&#8217;Henry&#8217;s stories, many end with a touch of irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-8L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}