{"id":64,"date":"2005-06-12T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2005-06-12T08:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/06\/12\/inside-the-kingdom\/"},"modified":"2008-10-26T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T00:08:13","slug":"inside-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/06\/12\/inside-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-64\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0446694886\/qid=1119021511\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_csp_1\/102-9495726-4240950?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\" target=\"NewWindow\">Inside the Kingdom<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Carmen bin Ladin<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>240 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Warner Books (June 13, 2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0446694886<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is finally out in paperback, so I brought it along for my latest flight to Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>The book is pretty good and a fast read.  She&#8217;s obviously lived inside Saudi Arabia as a wife of a Saudi (that&#8217;s different than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Saudis<\/span> for example, where the woman was American as was her husband) and the things she says match up with what I saw and heard way back when I was &#8220;over there.&#8221;  I wish she had written less about her famous brother-in-law, Osama (she obviously didn&#8217;t know him well) and had written a bit more about her divorce, which must have really upset her former husband &#8211; there are few details about the problems he has caused her.  But, its a great look at what its like to wear the burqa (black gauze covering the head) and deal with the second-class role women have in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-64\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 64);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-64\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-64\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Inside the Kingdom Author: Carmen bin Ladin Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Warner Books (June 13, 2005) ISBN: 0446694886 This is finally out in paperback, so I brought it along for my latest flight to Amsterdam. The book is pretty good and a fast read. She&#8217;s obviously lived inside Saudi Arabia as a wife of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[2344,2348],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-saudi-arabia","tag-books","tag-saudi-arabia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-12","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}