{"id":307,"date":"2009-04-24T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T01:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/book-launch-on-the-27th-april-at-the-arts-house\/"},"modified":"2010-08-11T13:14:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T05:14:05","slug":"book-launch-on-the-27th-april-at-the-arts-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/book-launch-on-the-27th-april-at-the-arts-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Book launch on the 27th April at The Arts House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/swfb.jpg\" alt=\"swfbook\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Firstly there&#8217;s a book launch at the Earshot Cafe at <a href=\"http:\/\/theartshouse.com.sg\" target=\"_blank\">The Arts House<\/a> on the 27th of April, 7.30pm.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the book about? Let me copy paste from the mailer I got.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Long Walk Home<\/strong> by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar.<\/p>\n<p><em>Set against the backdrop of twentieth-century India, The Long Walk Home illuminates history &#8211; partition, two Indo-Pak wars, and the rise of religious fundamentalism &#8211; through the life of one man. A story of faith and fundamentalism, misguided passions and accidental heroism, it is woven through a narrative of love, murder, vendetta, and greed. As the protagonist nears the end of his life, he wonders: will there be a chance for redemption? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manreetsodhisomeshwar.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.manreetsodhisomeshwar.com<\/a> to know more about the writer!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, these are one of the events leading up to the main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singaporewritersfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Singapore Writers&#8217; Festival<\/a> and there will be more authors and such having talks and appearances as we charge onwards towards October. I&#8217;ll be double checking the dates since some of them are due to changes and all anywho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly there&#8217;s a book launch at the Earshot Cafe at The Arts House on the 27th of April, 7.30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[39,66,64,36,65],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-festival","tag-jacaranda","tag-singapore","tag-writer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-4X","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}