{"id":479,"date":"2013-10-31T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=479"},"modified":"2013-10-31T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T22:35:15","slug":"book-what-is-the-what-by-dave-eggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Book:  <em>What is the What<\/em> by Dave Eggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading <em>Zeitoun<\/em> by Dave Eggers, I had to try this one.  Eggers knows how to tell a story, and this is one helluva story.  Achak Deng is a Sudanese who tells his life story from childhood in Sudan to his emigration to the US, from child refugee during the civil war to eventual escape.  There is a lot of senseless war and tribal violence, sadness, death, victories, accomplishments, happiness, and humor.  The story of this man is nearly unbelievable, but it&#8217;s said to be true.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re the type to send checks to charities doing work in Africa whenever starving children are shown on late-night TV, avoid this book.  Otherwise it&#8217;s extremely well-written, and an educational tale of what life was (is?) like there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, I had to try this one. Eggers knows how to tell a story, and this is one helluva story. Achak Deng is a Sudanese who tells his life story from childhood in Sudan to his emigration to the US, from child refugee during the civil war to eventual escape. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}