{"id":4889,"date":"2014-10-30T20:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2014-10-30T21:03:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T02:03:33","slug":"brief-review-the-forgiven-by-lawrence-osborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/books\/brief-review-the-forgiven-by-lawrence-osborne","title":{"rendered":"Brief review: The Forgiven by Lawrence Osborne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307889041\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0307889041&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/reviews\/TheForgiven.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307889041\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0307889041&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi\">The Forgiven: A Novel<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0307889041\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> by Lawrence Osborne.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Life changing events sometimes need forgiveness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you experience a life-changing event, do you need to be forgiven? Are you responsible?<br \/>\nOsborne gives such a full and rich description of an opulent 3-day weekend party in Morocco, you can feel the heat. You&#8217;re irritated by the sand. He describes the poverty of the native inhabitants and their resourcefulness.<\/p>\n<p>An exciting and pleasurable read. &#8220;She sat on the wall listening to the waterwheels in the forgetful sunshine, baking and content. To make the lizards scatter she kicked her sandals against the pale green cushion-like prickly pears. It was perfectly silent. The air smelled of cedars. The mountains shone, paradoxically, like ice, a brown, sullied ice that shines all the same. When the wind picked up the tassels of her dress and the hat&#8217;s ribbon, she felt herself fluttering all in one piece, with the coils of lemons brushing her tongue and a whiff of thyme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forgiven: A Novel by Lawrence Osborne. Life changing events sometimes need forgiveness. If you experience a life-changing event, do you need to be forgiven? Are you responsible? Osborne gives such a full and rich description of an opulent 3-day weekend party in Morocco, you can feel the heat. You&#8217;re irritated by the sand. He [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1371,1372,252],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-forgiven","tag-lawrence-osborne","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4893,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/4893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}