{"id":1427,"date":"2010-03-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:08:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:08:32","slug":"one-amazing-thing-by-chitra-banerjee-divakaruni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/one-amazing-thing.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/one-amazing-thing-203x300.jpg\" width=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">One Amazing Thing is about a group of disparate people in the basement office of the Indian Consulate on the &nbsp;west coast. An earthquake collapses the building and traps them in the basement with very little food, a flashlight, slowly rising water, and no hope of rescue. Nerves are raw and they pick on each other and eventually they start fighting each other. They realize they cannot go on so they take somebody&#8217;s suggestion to each tell a story about themselves to help pass the time while they wait.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">The stories are amazing and help bring these people from widely different cultures and backgrounds together. Hidden resentments between husbands and wives, parents and children, secrets, reasons, they all come out.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I give the book 3.5 stars out of 4 but hey I&#8217;m a sucker for a good story. I liked this book. I&#8217;ll be reading more by Ms. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chitradivakaruni.com\/\">Divakaruni<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Amazing Thing is about a group of disparate people in the basement office of the Indian Consulate on the &nbsp;west coast. An earthquake collapses the building and traps them in the basement with very little food, a flashlight, slowly rising water, and no hope of rescue. Nerves are raw and they pick on each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}