{"id":1558,"date":"2019-03-02T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2019-03-02T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T12:28:12","slug":"review-between-friends-by-amos-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-between-friends-by-amos-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Between Friends, by Amos Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I lived for nearly 18 years on a kibbutz.  Amos Oz, who passed a way a few weeks ago, also lived for a number of years on a kibbutz.  This collection of stories takes place on a fictional kibbutz, with a cast of characters who pop up in each other&#8217;s stories and lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the striking things about living on a kibbutz was how one knew people as neighbours, friends, co-workers, lovers.  No one was just &#8220;the guy who repaired the shoes&#8221; or &#8220;the woman who worked with the chickens&#8221;.  Everyone was three dimensional, and that is clear in these wonderful stories.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a sensitive, accurate, and somewhat sad account of what used to be called &#8220;the experiment that did not fail&#8221;.  The final chapter, &#8220;Esperanto&#8221; was especially beautiful, and one has to wonder if Oz was deliberatedly comparing the twin dreams of a universal language and that of a more equal and more just society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lived for nearly 18 years on a kibbutz. Amos Oz, who passed a way a few weeks ago, also lived for a number of years on a kibbutz. This collection of stories takes place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}