{"id":396,"date":"2005-02-14T21:07:42","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T04:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2005-02-14T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T04:07:42","slug":"the-kite-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/14\/the-kite-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kite Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1594480001\/qid=1108443984\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/102-3758601-2444120?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\"><I>The Kite Runner<\/i><\/a> and on the front of the paperback, there&#8217;s a blurb from Entertainment Weekly which reads: &#8220;A moving portrait of modern Afghanistan.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Now I don&#8217;t read EW, but I&#8217;d be willing to be that they don&#8217;t have a Kabul bureau. And I&#8217;d also be willing to bet that the closest that any EW staffer ever got to Afghanistan was probably some place like Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Modern Afghanistan indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m reading The Kite Runner and on the front of the paperback, there&#8217;s a blurb from Entertainment Weekly which reads: &#8220;A moving portrait of modern Afghanistan.&#8221; Now I don&#8217;t read EW, but I&#8217;d be willing to be that they don&#8217;t have a Kabul bureau. And I&#8217;d also be willing to bet that the closest that any EW staffer ever got to Afghanistan was probably some place like Paris. Modern Afghanistan indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-wtf","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-6o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}