{"id":1598,"date":"2010-03-12T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2010-03-12T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T17:49:12","slug":"kara-kush-a-novel-of-afghanistan-idries-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2010\/03\/12\/kara-kush-a-novel-of-afghanistan-idries-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"Kara Kush. A novel of Afghanistan. Idries Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Gobustan_ancient_Azerbaycan_full.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Gobustan_ancient_Azerbaycan_full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"full photo of Gobustan rock drawing\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/98\/Gobustan_ancient_Azerbaycan_full.jpg\/300px-Gobustan_ancient_Azerbaycan_full.jpg\" alt=\"full photo of Gobustan rock drawing\" width=\"300\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Gobustan_ancient_Azerbaycan_full.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Gobustan_ancient_Azerbaycan_full.jpg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kara Kush. 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I almost could not put it down as it really holds your attention and brings you right there.   If you have ever wondered how the Afghans were able to push the Russians out, this book has your answer.   Perfect book for a cruise or a long flight &#8211; the 560 pp do not miss a beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[807,410,2776,813,812,30,810,808,811],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}