{"id":3651,"date":"2012-11-25T23:44:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T23:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:56:19","slug":"duty-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3651","title":{"rendered":"Duty Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Duty-Free-Moni-Mohsin\/dp\/0099554631\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1353886477&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Duty-Free.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Duty Free\" width=\"181\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3656\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book reminds me a lot of my Indian community, or should I say certain members of it.  It&#8217;s written as a Pakistani lady would speak English and I can hear her voice; it&#8217;s very well done.  I&#8217;m not sure whether someone who didn&#8217;t understand both Hindi and English would fully appreciate it though.  Sometimes the way the narrator mixes English words up is a bit far-fetched but the &#8216;Indianisms&#8217; are so good that they make up for it e.g. &#8216;I&#8217;m so depress, so depress that don&#8217;t even ask.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A pleasant read which pokes fun at society ladies, superstitions and more.  It touches on the dark side of living in Pakistan but is ultimately uplifting.<\/p>\n<p>(47th in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book reminds me a lot of my Indian community, or should I say certain members of it. It&#8217;s written as a Pakistani lady would speak English and I can hear her voice; it&#8217;s very well done. I&#8217;m not sure whether someone who didn&#8217;t understand both Hindi and English would fully appreciate it though. Sometimes [&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-3651","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\/3651","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=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}