{"id":198,"date":"2011-01-19T15:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2011-01-19T16:09:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T22:09:04","slug":"the-reluctant-fundamentalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"The Reluctant Fundamentalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/9780156034029_150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-208\" title=\"9780156034029_150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/9780156034029_150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist<\/em> by Mohsin Hamid haunts me still, though I finished it over a week ago. It&#8217;s a short tale with a compelling and easy to read narrative. The protagonist, a Pakistani, shares his life story over the course of a meal lasting for several hours to an American stranger he meets in a cafe. The author does a superior job of maintaining an underlying tone of tension beneath all of the dialogue. Though perhaps not indicative of a universal experience, the story sheds light on the assimilation of a young man into a culture very foreign from his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid haunts me still, though I finished it over a week ago. It&#8217;s a short tale with a compelling and easy to read narrative. The protagonist, a Pakistani, shares his life story over the course of a meal lasting for several hours to an American stranger he meets in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanahaswrinkles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}