{"id":2735,"date":"2008-10-14T03:22:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T03:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2008-10-14T03:22:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T03:22:46","slug":"2008-10-14-jewel-of-medina-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2735","title":{"rendered":"Jewel of Medina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The Literary Saloon has a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200810a.htm#hh2\">post<\/a>\u00a0collecting reviews of &#8220;The Jewel of Medina,&#8221; the novel about the Prophet Mohammed&#8217;s young wife Aisha that made it into the news mostly thanks to the kind of idiotic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200809c.htm#hc8\">reaction<\/a> that one can unfortunately almost count on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, most reviewers agree the book (which is described as a &#8220;bodice-ripper&#8221; and has a scene in which the protagonist&#8217;s marriage is consummated) is pretty mediocre. But it&#8217;s apparently the #1 selling book in Serbia (I&#8217;m still not sure why). Let&#8217;s just hope Egyptian clerics and tabloid editors don&#8217;t get ahold of this story, or we&#8217;ll have another Danish cartoons situation.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The Literary Saloon has a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200810a.htm#hh2\">post<\/a>\u00a0collecting reviews of &#8220;The Jewel of Medina,&#8221; the novel about the Prophet Mohammed&#8217;s young wife Aisha that made it into the news mostly thanks to the kind of idiotic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200809c.htm#hc8\">reaction<\/a> that one can unfortunately almost count on.\u00a0<br \/>\nUnsurprisingly, most reviewers agree the book (which is described as a &#8220;bodice-ripper&#8221; and has a scene in which the protagonist&#8217;s marriage is consummated) is pretty mediocre. But it&#8217;s apparently the #1 selling book in Serbia (I&#8217;m still not sure why). Let&#8217;s just hope Egyptian clerics and tabloid editors don&#8217;t get ahold of this story, or we&#8217;ll have another Danish cartoons situation.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}