{"id":2354,"date":"2015-05-25T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T23:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2015-05-25T15:01:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T23:01:27","slug":"asian-americans-of-achievement-amy-tan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/25\/asian-americans-of-achievement-amy-tan\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Americans of Achievement &#8211; Amy Tan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Amy-Tan-Asian-Americans-Achievement\/dp\/0791092690\" target=\"_blank\">this book<\/a> from the library from the Juvenile section for a quick read about Amy Tan, the author of The Joy Luck Club.<\/p>\n<p>I thought Amy Tan was a great story teller, making up the complicated lives for her characters in The Joy Luck Club. Now I find out those are based of true events in her family, particularly her mother&#8217;s life. I have a greater appreciation for her after knowing her difficult crazy family background.<\/p>\n<p>Her second book The Kitchen God&#8217;s Wife is based on her mother&#8217;s life. I didn&#8217;t want to read it before, but now maybe I will.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up this book from the library from the Juvenile section for a quick read about Amy Tan, the author of The Joy Luck Club. I thought Amy Tan was a great story teller, making up the complicated lives for her characters in The Joy Luck Club. Now I find out those are based of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}