{"id":293,"date":"2018-02-02T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2019-09-22T01:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T05:16:11","slug":"memoirs-of-a-geisha-by-arthur-golden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2018\/02\/02\/memoirs-of-a-geisha-by-arthur-golden\/","title":{"rendered":"Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended by Anna Davies<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m always fascinated by how childhood, adolescence and the transition to the workforce is viewed in different cultures, and I\u2019ve wanted to read Golden\u2019s Memoirs of a Geisha for quite some time. I picked up my copy for two pounds at an Oxfam shop while abroad, and finally had some time to read over break. I wasn\u2019t expecting as much background information about the lives of the characters as I was given, but it ended up making the novel more engaging as the action progressed. I also loved the inclusion of how WWII changed the geisha industry. The struggles of Sayuri (nee Chiyo) and her ultimate triumph in an exclusively female industry was as emotional as it is educational for the reader. It was a great exploration of what femininity is defined as and what it means in other countries, too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended by Anna Davies I\u2019m always fascinated by how childhood, adolescence and the transition to the workforce is viewed in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2018\/02\/02\/memoirs-of-a-geisha-by-arthur-golden\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwr","category-what-were-reading"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}