{"id":11186,"date":"2014-07-08T03:45:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T08:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2014-07-08T03:59:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T08:59:12","slug":"over-two-years-on-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11186","title":{"rendered":"Over two years on the New York Times Bestseller List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Color-Water-Tribute-Anniverary\/dp\/159448192X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1404809136&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=the+color+of+water+book\"><strong>Color of Water<\/strong><\/a> to Claudia over the weekend. Actually I didn&#8217;t finish it. I got to the epilogue and Claudia offered to finish it. I&#8217;d gotten a little teary in my histrionic reading and she kindly offered to finish while I wiped my eyes. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never had much desire to read so-so books unless they are about subjects I&#8217;m immensely curious about and they are the best available. That post title is at the top of the page of later editions to James&#8217; McBride&#8217;s book &#8220;A black man&#8217;s tribute to his white mother.&#8221; The paperback is a slender book despite its 290 pages. It was an easy engrossing read and more than justified my time reading it. <\/p>\n<p>One other comment found on the front cover of the book was a quote from Mirabella, which I gather is a woman&#8217;s magazine. It says &#8220;The Color of WAter [will] make you proud to be a member of the human race.&#8221; I don&#8217;t disagree. And right now, on the Duluth School Board, I need all the evidence I can scrape up that we humans are a tribe worth fighting for.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the book some years ago and its been sitting in a bin of books under a bed awaiting the time it would be recovered for a reading. I think its only the second of third book of the year for me such have been the time demands of serving on the School Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading the Color of Water to Claudia over the weekend. Actually I didn&#8217;t finish it. I got to the epilogue and Claudia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-civil-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11188,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions\/11188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}