{"id":2683,"date":"2006-12-01T17:26:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T17:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2006-12-01T17:26:24","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T17:26:24","slug":"top_10_2006_boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2683","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 2006 Books via the NYT Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/books\/review\/20061210tenbestbooks.html?ex=1322456400&#038;en=16ca3ba53974da9a&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">NY Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Fiction &#038; Non-Fiction.  The list includes Rory Stewart&#8217;s excellent: The Places in Between:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> You are the first tourist in Afghanistan,&#8221; Stewart, a young Scotsman, was warned by an Afghan official before commencing the journey recounted in this splendid book. &#8220;It is mid-winter &#8211; there are three meters of snow on the high passes, there are wolves, and this is a war. You will die, I can guarantee.&#8221; Stewart, thankfully, did not die, and his report on his adventures &#8211; walking across Afghanistan in January of 2002, shortly after the fall of the Taliban &#8211; belongs with the masterpieces of the travel genre. Stewart may be foolhardy, but on the page he is a terrific companion: smart, compassionate and human. His book cracks open a fascinating, blasted world miles away from the newspaper headlines.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: Fiction &#038; Non-Fiction. The list includes Rory Stewart&#8217;s excellent: The Places in Between: You are the first tourist in Afghanistan,&#8221; Stewart, a young Scotsman, was warned by an Afghan official before commencing the journey recounted in this splendid book. &#8220;It is mid-winter &#8211; there are three meters of snow on the high passes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}