{"id":1773,"date":"2012-09-04T21:14:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T01:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2012-09-04T21:20:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T01:20:53","slug":"an-inspiring-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=1773","title":{"rendered":"An Inspiring Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/128143450.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1774\" title=\"128143450\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/128143450.jpg?resize=300%2C448\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/128143450.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/triciatierneyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/128143450.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Sometimes a book just gets under your skin. This is one of those books for me. \u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/behind-the-beautiful-forevers-katherine-boo\/1100643436\">Behind the Beautiful Forevers<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is almost like a hybrid of fiction and non-fiction. Of course these are real people and a real world that Katherine Boo writes about &#8211; but she doesn&#8217;t <em>report<\/em>, she <em>immerses<\/em> us in the lives of the people of this slum. Her book reads like a novel. Boo&#8217;s own voice is unheard, she remains unseen, no mere reportage here. \u00a0It is only in the afterward that she humbly describes how she went about writing this compelling book. I am inspired by just how many different ways there are to tell a story. \u00a0Boo is certainly a master.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a book just gets under your skin. This is one of those books for me. \u00a0Behind the Beautiful Forevers\u00a0is almost like a hybrid of fiction and non-fiction. Of course these are real people and a real world that Katherine Boo writes about &#8211; but she doesn&#8217;t report, she immerses us in the lives of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=1773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Inspiring Book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","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":[14,7],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPzTS-sB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}