{"id":164,"date":"2007-10-10T20:29:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T00:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=164"},"modified":"2007-10-10T20:29:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T00:29:33","slug":"persepolis-the-story-of-a-childhood-by-marjane-satrapitrans-mattias-ripa-and-blake-ferrispantheon-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/persepolis-the-story-of-a-childhood-by-marjane-satrapitrans-mattias-ripa-and-blake-ferrispantheon-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapitrans. Mattias Ripa and Blake FerrisPantheon, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Persepolis<\/i> is a smart and poignant memoir of an Iranian girlhood, of life in Tehran after the Islamic Revolution and during the Iran-Iraq War.  It\u2019s a graphic novel whose balance of words and images struck me as just right (which is to say: it\u2019s pretty text-heavy); the art is bold and black-and-white  and totally satisfying. This is a family history, a personal history, a way of remembering a time and a place: teenage rebellion and political dissidence in a political climate of fear, intimidation, brutality. I started reading on my morning commute and finished after dinner, and now I\u2019m eager to check <i>Persepolis 2<\/i> out of the library as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persepolis is a smart and poignant memoir of an Iranian girlhood, of life in Tehran after the Islamic Revolution and during the Iran-Iraq War. It\u2019s a graphic novel whose balance of words and images struck me as just right (which is to say: it\u2019s pretty text-heavy); the art is bold and black-and-white and totally satisfying. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}