{"id":757,"date":"2013-04-14T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T22:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/share.cassity.us\/?p=757"},"modified":"2014-12-09T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:53:43","slug":"the-orphan-masters-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/the-orphan-masters-son\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orphan Master\u2019s Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;d read the book I&#8217;d brought on vacay a faster than I&#8217;d expected, I once again looked to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/tob\/\">TOB<\/a> and picked this year&#8217;s winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0812982622\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=mattcass-20&#038;camp=0&#038;creative=0&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=0812982622&#038;adid=0YE56RA6R4R3E60VGEN1\">The Orphan Master&#8217;s Son<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This is one helluva book. Set in North Korea, which was enough to intrigue me. It&#8217;s kind of like a North Korean Forrest Gump, where the main character takes you through just about every social class there is. I came across some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10150434415642388.449742.769477387&#038;type=3\">photos<\/a> on facebook too that helped paint the picture of the public settings. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;d read the book I&#8217;d brought on vacay a faster than I&#8217;d expected, I once again looked to the TOB and picked this year&#8217;s winner The Orphan Master&#8217;s Son. This is one helluva book. Set in North Korea, which was enough to intrigue me. It&#8217;s kind of like a North Korean Forrest Gump, where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/the-orphan-masters-son\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Orphan Master\u2019s Son<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcassity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}