{"id":729,"date":"2004-12-14T03:01:44","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T01:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/729"},"modified":"2007-06-08T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T09:25:25","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/729","title":{"rendered":"Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><u>Finished in the last 48 hours:<\/u><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0385722206\/qid=1103006665\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_ka_1\/104-9563231-5057546?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress : A Novel<\/a>, by Dai Sejie<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0812968379\/qid%3D1103006753\/sr%3D11-1\/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1\/104-9563231-5057546\">Funny in Farsi : A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America<\/a>, by Firoozeh Dumas<\/p>\n<p><em><u>Currently Reading:<\/u><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bahaibookstore.com\/productdetails.cfm?PC=3122\">Memories of Nine Years in Akka<\/a>, by Youness Afroukhteh<br \/>\nI highly recommend this book. Here is an excerpt that I enjoyed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;White tea, fragrant and delicious, was made ready and within minutes other friends began to gather until the renowned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bahai-biblio.org\/centre-photo\/gens\/croyants\/apotres-baha-u-llah\/capotr~34n~Zaynul-Abidin.htm#centrer\">Zaynu&#8217;l-Muquarrabin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bahai-biblio.org\/centre-photo\/gens\/croyants\/apotres-baha-u-llah\/capotr~30m~mishkin-qalam.htm#centrer\">Mishkin Qalam<\/a> arrived.<br \/>\nEach introduced himself and Mishkin Qalam, as part of his introduction, gave me a few strands of his own hair, both white ones and yellowed ones. He said: &#8216;It&#8217;s my thin beard and crooked body that are my passport to fame!&#8217; To which I responded in jest: &#8216;I too have helped, for I have always said that Mishkin Qalam does not need to tell jokes to get laughs &#8211; his face and body serve the purpose all by themselves!&#8217; Everyone broke out in hearty laughter and this opened the door to more light-hearted comments and merry-making.&#8221; -P. 19<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished in the last 48 hours: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress : A Novel, by Dai Sejie Funny in Farsi : A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, by Firoozeh Dumas Currently Reading: Memories of Nine Years in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahai","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}