{"id":520,"date":"2010-03-23T07:26:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T11:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/?p=520"},"modified":"2010-03-23T07:26:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T11:26:41","slug":"ishmael-beah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Ishmael Beah&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"bookTitle\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-23a.jpg\" title=\"2010-03-23a.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-23a.jpg\" title=\"2010-03-23a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2010-03-23a.jpg\" alt=\"2010-03-23a.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/h1>\n<p>I read Ishmael Beah&#8217;s book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and loved it.\u00a0 Well, it always seems strange to say I &#8220;loved&#8221; a book that is about tragedy.\u00a0 I thought the style of writing was straightforward and frank.\u00a0 It instantly became one of my favorite books.<\/p>\n<p>Then my daughter found out that he would be coming to her school to speak!\u00a0 She is in Student Government and would be directly involved in the event!\u00a0 What an opportunity.\u00a0 They sold t shirts to raise money for his foundation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beahfound.org\/\">The Ishmael Beah Foundation<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0 Last Friday was the event and she got to the official photographer and meet him.\u00a0 She had just finished reading his book and was incredibly proud to get the opportunity to speak with him!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/good_reads\/book\/author\/24189.Ishmael_Beah\" onclick=\"(new Image()).src = '\/ajax\/ct.php?app_id=2415071772&#038;action_type=3&#038;post_form_id=ea878b34b98d1c53bc653572d8a138eb&#038;position=3&#038;' + Math.random();return true;\" class=\"authorName\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I read Ishmael Beah&#8217;s book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and loved it.\u00a0 Well, it always seems strange to say I &#8220;loved&#8221; a book that is about tragedy.\u00a0 I thought the style of writing was straightforward and frank.\u00a0 It instantly became one of my favorite books. Then my daughter found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/?p=520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ishmael Beah&#8230;..&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tuesday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p172S4-8o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}