{"id":644,"date":"2008-09-14T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=644"},"modified":"2008-09-14T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T16:00:06","slug":"american-born-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/09\/14\/american-born-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"American Born Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-644\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Born-Chinese-Gene-Luen\/dp\/1596431520\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1221407675&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">American Born Chinese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span><strong>Author<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Gene%20Luen%20Yang\">Gene Luen Yang<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 240 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> First Second (September 5, 2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 1596431520<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-1596431522<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a graphic novel whose apparent plot is the story of three Chinese: a monkey king, a young boy, and a stereotypical &#8220;chinaman&#8221; from the turn of the century.\u00c2\u00a0 These three stories come together in the end with a strong message against bigotry, and for following your personal path and being true to who you are.<\/p>\n<p>I read this in one night, and really liked it.<\/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-644\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 644);\"><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-644\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-644\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: American Born Chinese Author: Gene Luen Yang Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: First Second (September 5, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 1596431520 ISBN-13: 978-1596431522 This is a graphic novel whose apparent plot is the story of three Chinese: a monkey king, a young boy, and a stereotypical &#8220;chinaman&#8221; from the turn of the century.\u00c2\u00a0 These three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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],"tags":[2344,68],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-graphic-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-ao","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","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=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}