{"id":3311,"date":"2011-04-23T21:24:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T02:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2011-04-23T21:24:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T02:24:14","slug":"book-review-for-one-more-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3311","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: for one more day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3312\" href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=3312\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3312\" title=\"41VHT32TE7L._SL500_AA300_\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/41VHT32TE7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/41VHT32TE7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/41VHT32TE7L._SL500_AA300_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not much of a fiction reader, but today all I was looking for was something relaxing to read out on the boat. \u00a0I picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-More-Day-Mitch-Albom\/dp\/1401303277\" target=\"_blank\"><em>for one more day<\/em><\/a> by Mitch Albom. \u00a0I think my mom gave this to me for Christmas a few years back and I just had not read it yet. \u00a0This turned out to be an interesting book.<\/p>\n<p>I read the entire book in just under two hours as the story is pretty engaging. \u00a0The main character, Charley Bennetto, has a chance to &#8220;relive&#8221; his life through his memories. \u00a0It somewhat reminded me of the Ghost of Christmas Past from The Christmas Carol. \u00a0Anyone who reads this book will find something in Bennetto&#8217;s life to identify with in some way.<\/p>\n<p><em>for one more day<\/em> is definitely not a Christian book in any way, but there are some spiritual themes that can be drawn from it&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>live each day to the fullest for the glory of God<\/li>\n<li>God puts people in our path on purpose<\/li>\n<li>relationships with others can encourage us to become all that God created us to be<\/li>\n<li>realize that every moment of our lives should be lived intentionally and without regret<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This was a good book and one that I would recommend. \u00a0Be sure to check it out if you are looking for a good story with a good message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not much of a fiction reader, but today all I was looking for was something relaxing to read out on the boat. \u00a0I picked up for one more day by Mitch Albom. \u00a0I think my mom gave this to me for Christmas a few years back and I just had not read it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}