{"id":29347,"date":"2022-01-29T19:49:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T00:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29347"},"modified":"2022-01-29T19:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T00:49:18","slug":"lighthearted-books-to-read-when-life-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2022\/01\/29\/lighthearted-books-to-read-when-life-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighthearted Books to Read When Life is Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Book Riot <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/lighthearted-books\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lighthearted Books to Read When Life is Hard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPerhaps you\u2019re feeling depressed by the constant barrage of horrible news in your Twitter feed. Maybe you\u2019re inundated at work and don\u2019t have the fortitude to wade through a challenging book. Or possibly you\u2019ve just read three devastating novels in a row and need a break from heavy themes. Been there, done all of that.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just finished one of their suggestions &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0345803787\/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=boorio-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349&#038;creativeASIN=0345803787\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crazy Rich Asians<\/a> by Kevin Kwan.<br \/>\nI knew about the movie, which I  never managed to see.  The book managed to take my attention off of politics for a while.  Although I could relate the subject matter of politics and economics that were relevant even if the author did or did not intend for their to be a relation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Riot has the article Lighthearted Books to Read When Life is Hard. Perhaps you\u2019re feeling depressed by the constant barrage of horrible news in your Twitter feed. Maybe you\u2019re inundated at work and don\u2019t have the fortitude to wade through a challenging book. Or possibly you\u2019ve just read three devastating novels in a row [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29348,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29347\/revisions\/29348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}