{"id":1109,"date":"2015-06-19T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2015-06-19T11:01:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T18:01:34","slug":"praise-for-children-of-the-stone-in-huffington-post-books-the-seattle-times-st-louis-dispatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":"Praise for &#8216;Children of the Stone&#8217; in Huffington Post Books, the Seattle Times &#038; St. Louis Dispatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CScover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-986 aligncenter\" alt=\"CScover\" src=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CScover.jpg\" width=\"632\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CScover.jpg 632w, http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CScover-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Sandy Tolan knows Palestinian life<\/strong>. His first book,\u00a0<em>The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and the Heart of the Middle East<\/em>\u00a0(2006) was followed up by his popular blog,\u00a0<em>Ramallah Caf\u00e9: Facts on the Ground in the Middle East.<\/em>\u00a0Now he gives us\u00a0<em>Children of the Stone<\/em>\u00a0where we hear more about some of the people we&#8217;ve met at his caf\u00e9,&#8221; writes <strong>Huffington Post Books&#8217;<\/strong> Nancy Graham Holm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we also get is an unexpected &#8220;symphony&#8221; in four movements with magical Interludes; a blend of biography and politics with a literate discussion of music. The book&#8217;s subtitle:\u00a0<em>The Power of Music in a Hard Land<\/em>\u00a0<strong>refers to the profound influence music can have on people who live in a perpetually punishing environment<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221; Read the full review <strong><a title=\"Mozart and the Stone Thrower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/nancy-graham-holm\/mozart-and-the-stone-thrower-the-redemptive-power-of-music_b_7537760.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To hear what others are saying about\u00a0<em>Children of the Stone<\/em>, check out the latest reviews from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22529224-children-of-the-stone\" target=\"_blank\">GoodReads<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/books\/children-of-the-stone-the-power-of-music-in-a-hard-place\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Times<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/entertainment\/books-and-literature\/reviews\/orchestra-helps-bring-israelis-palestinians-together\/article_5cf72077-65be-5904-ba69-aa12290c01b7.html\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sandy Tolan knows Palestinian life. His first book,\u00a0The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and the Heart of the Middle East\u00a0(2006) was followed up by his popular blog,\u00a0Ramallah Caf\u00e9: Facts on the Ground in the Middle East.\u00a0Now he gives us\u00a0Children of the Stone\u00a0where we hear more about some of the people we&#8217;ve met at his <a href=\"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/?p=1109#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramallahcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}