{"id":2456,"date":"2017-02-14T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T07:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2017-02-14T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T07:33:43","slug":"glass-castle-jeannette-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/glass-castle-jeannette-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/glass-castle-jeannette-walls\/glasscastle\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2457\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2457\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/glass-castle-jeannette-walls\/glasscastle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/glasscastle.jpg?fit=700%2C525\" data-orig-size=\"700,525\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"glasscastle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/glasscastle.jpg?fit=700%2C525\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2457\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/glasscastle.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/glasscastle.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/glasscastle.jpg?w=700 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2lepTi0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Glass Castle<\/a> is a beautifully written memoir of resilience, adventure, and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. It feels almost like a fairy tale.<\/p>\n<p>Glass Castle is an addicting page-turner that will captivate you. It is a book about growing up and emotions (or lack of it) in today&#8217;s world. It gives you hope that no matter how messed up a person&#8217;s childhood is, he\/she can still end up as a normal.<\/p>\n<p>It will make you humble after reading this book. I highly recommend it. I will love to re-read it once again after few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glass Castle is a beautifully written memoir of resilience, adventure, and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[395],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-the-glass-castle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgLsB5-DC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2208,"url":"http:\/\/reliablesoftwares.com\/blog\/moon-reader-innovative-book-reader-with-powerful-controls-full-functions\/","url_meta":{"origin":2456,"position":0},"title":"Moon+ Reader Innovative book reader with powerful controls &#038; full functions","author":"saifuddin","date":"July 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Moon+ Reader is an android app for reading any documents \/ books. 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