{"id":1299,"date":"2012-04-11T22:51:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T22:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2015-04-04T20:45:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T20:45:25","slug":"shanghai-girls-by-lisa-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Girls by Lisa See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1304\" title=\"Shanghai girls\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Shanghai-girls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The story begins in 1937 in Shanghai, China, where\u00a0two young adult women who live with their parents make money by modeling for calendars and other products.\u00a0 Their world comes to a crashing halt when they learn that\u00a0their father gambled away all the family\u2019s money and assets. \u00a0Then the country is invaded by Japan.\u00a0 May and Pearl\u00a0travel to the United States to be with husbands selected for them by their father.\u00a0 The characters are interesting.\u00a0 History jumps off the page while you are immersed in this tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story begins in 1937 in Shanghai, China, where\u00a0two young adult women who live with their parents make money by modeling for calendars and other products.\u00a0 Their world comes to a crashing halt when they learn that\u00a0their father gambled away all the family\u2019s money and assets. \u00a0Then the country is invaded by Japan.\u00a0 May and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1299\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shanghai Girls by Lisa See<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-carol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}