{"id":2305,"date":"2012-05-20T13:05:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T12:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:49:25","slug":"a-beginners-guide-to-acting-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2305","title":{"rendered":"A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Acting English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Beginners-Guide-To-Acting-English\/dp\/0091924774\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Shappi_book.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A Beginner&#039;s Guide to Acting English\" width=\"181\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read almost all of this book in a single day.  It is wonderfully easy to read.  Written by a woman only three years older than I am, the book took me back to parts of my own childhood (Indians aren&#8217;t so different to Iranians in terms of cultural attitudes).  I&#8217;m very impressed at how good Shappi&#8217;s memory is.  She describes childhood episodes so honestly and in such detail that they really were a delight to read.  I loved the stories of the older members of her extended family too.  A welcome bonus was learning a little about Iran and its people.  The book is very enjoyable indeed.<\/p>\n<p>(20th in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read almost all of this book in a single day. It is wonderfully easy to read. Written by a woman only three years older than I am, the book took me back to parts of my own childhood (Indians aren&#8217;t so different to Iranians in terms of cultural attitudes). I&#8217;m very impressed at how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3779,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}