{"id":40,"date":"2008-09-10T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thaylin.info\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-02-11T13:55:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T18:55:57","slug":"reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thaylin.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/10\/reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s been a little while since my last post. I&#8217;ve been quite busy dealing with work and random visitors into my home. Lately I&#8217;ve been working with flex and contrary to my previous belief, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s so bad. Though I still feel a bit limited it does seem to cut down on trivial layout work which is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been reading a lot. Primarily, it seems to be books that all happen in the &#8216;stans regions (Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc.). I&#8217;m currently in the middle of reading &#8220;<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Three-Cups-Tea-Mission-Promote\/dp\/0143038257\">Three Cups of Tea<\/a><\/u>&#8220;. It&#8217;s quite the enthralling book about a man who happens upon a small village while attempting to climb K2 and ends up on a wuest to build schools for the poor villages throughout the country that the government never gave a second look at.<\/p>\n<p>I also just completed &#8220;<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kite-Runner-Khaled-Hosseini\/dp\/1594480001\">Kite Runner<\/a><\/u>&#8221; and &#8220;<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Thousand-Splendid-Suns-Kathy\/dp\/1594489505\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_2_img?pf_rd_p=304485601&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-2&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=1594480001&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=0MFVPFCN7V3PSQ8D151S\">A Thousand Splendid Suns<\/a><\/u>&#8221; which are both also very amazing books. Though both based on fictional stories, they are strewn with factual references and accounts throughout the last 50 or so years in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>All three of these books have largely changed my view on those regions. Not that I had a bad view of them previously, but the books have really opened my eyes to the peoples&#8217; culture and method of thinking. All three of these books I highly recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s been a little while since my last post. I&#8217;ve been quite busy dealing with work and random visitors into my home. Lately I&#8217;ve been working with flex and contrary to my previous belief, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s so bad. Though I still feel a bit limited it does seem to cut down on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaylin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaylin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaylin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaylin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaylin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaylin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaylin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thaylin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaylin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thaylin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}