{"id":1306,"date":"2007-12-15T18:48:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T23:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/15\/the-complete-persepolis\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T23:45:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T04:45:57","slug":"the-complete-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/15\/the-complete-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Complete Persepolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&amp;EAN=9780375714832&amp;itm=5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"148\" border=\"5\" align=\"texttop\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/persepolis.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I finally (finally!) actually finished one of the myriad books that I&#8217;ve started this year.&nbsp; Of course, the fact that it was in comic-book form helped.&nbsp; If anything though, the drawings really helped to capture the mood of the entire piece.&nbsp; Stark, bold, a little bit sad.&nbsp; Growing up in the west, you just can&#8217;t even imagine living through 10 years of war, only to be shipped off, as a 14-year old, to a foreign country where you don&#8217;t speak the language, for your safety.&nbsp; And to then be abandoned by the people who are entrusted to care for you.&nbsp; A really, really, beautiful (both graphically and substantively) book.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally (finally!) actually finished one of the myriad books that I&#8217;ve started this year.&nbsp; Of course, the fact that it was in comic-book form helped.&nbsp; If anything though, the drawings really helped to capture the mood of the entire piece.&nbsp; Stark, bold, a little bit sad.&nbsp; Growing up in the west, you just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-l4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}