{"id":32293,"date":"2018-01-22T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=32293"},"modified":"2018-01-19T10:15:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T16:15:45","slug":"the-sun-and-her-flowers-by-rupi-kaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-sun-and-her-flowers-by-rupi-kaur\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sun and her Flowers by Rupi Kaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;cn=1243328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/416ZrnNLj6L._SX321_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg?w=1050&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.1&amp;cn=1243328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sun and her Flowers<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em> a 2017 Top Fiction and Literature book of poetry as well as a New York Times Bestseller, is the second brilliant poetry book by Rupi Kaur.<\/p>\n<p>Kaur&#8217;s Poignant second book is another incredible work helping all of us relate to our human condition and the common thread binding us between each other&#8230;..this thread of humanity, raw emotion, depression, tears, joy, love and life in all of it&#8217;s glorious and dark forms.\u00a0 Excerpt from the book:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;this is the recipe of life<\/p>\n<p>said my mother<\/p>\n<p>as she held me in her arms as i wept<\/p>\n<p>think of those flowers you plant<\/p>\n<p>in the garden each year<\/p>\n<p>they will teach you<\/p>\n<p>that people too<\/p>\n<p>must wilt<\/p>\n<p>fall<\/p>\n<p>root<\/p>\n<p>rise<\/p>\n<p>in order to bloom&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Life is hard. We all do our best. Be kind, do your best. Go to your local library and check out this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun and her Flowers, a 2017 Top Fiction and Literature book of poetry as well as a New York Times Bestseller, is the second brilliant poetry book by Rupi Kaur. Kaur&#8217;s Poignant second book is another incredible work helping all of us relate to our human condition and the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-sun-and-her-flowers-by-rupi-kaur\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4467,536],"class_list":["post-32293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-human-condition","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-8oR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32293\/revisions\/32303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}