{"id":10909,"date":"2019-02-04T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=10909"},"modified":"2019-01-29T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T22:37:05","slug":"a-story-of-those-behind-historical-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/a-story-of-those-behind-historical-events\/","title":{"rendered":"A story of those behind historical events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/01\/ToKeepSunAlive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10910\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2019\/01\/ToKeepSunAlive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a>The year is 1979. The Iranian Revolution is just around the corner. In the northeastern city of Naishapur, a retired judge and his wife, Bibi-Khanoom, continue to run their ancient family orchard, growing apples, plums, peaches, and sour cherries. \u00a0Bibi-Khanoom\u2019s grandniece secretly falls in love with the judge\u2019s grandnephew and dreams of a career on the stage. His other grandnephew withers away on opium dreams. A widowed father longs for a life in Europe. A strained marriage slowly unravels. The orchard trees bloom and fruit as the streets in the capital grow violent. A once-in-a-lifetime solar eclipse, set to occur on one of the holiest days of \u00a0the year, finally causes the family\u2015and the country\u2015to break.<\/p>\n<p>Will the monarchy survive the revolutionary tide gathering across the country?<\/p>\n<p>Find this in the Popular Reading Collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year is 1979. The Iranian Revolution is just around the corner. In the northeastern city of Naishapur, a retired judge and his wife, Bibi-Khanoom, continue to run their ancient family orchard, growing apples, plums, peaches, and sour cherries. \u00a0Bibi-Khanoom\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/a-story-of-those-behind-historical-events\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10911,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10909\/revisions\/10911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}