{"id":551,"date":"2013-06-01T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/06\/how-books-can-open-your-mind.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T08:19:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:19:01","slug":"how-books-can-open-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/06\/how-books-can-open-your-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"How Books Can Open Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ibCtsHgz3Y?feature=player_detailpage\" width=\"540\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Lisa Bu explains how books transformed her life\u2013in <em>The Correspondence in the Family of Fou Lei<\/em>, she found parental advice, in <em>Jane Eyre<\/em>, she found a role model of an independent woman, from <em>Cheaper by the Dozen<\/em>, she learned how to be efficient, and from <em>The Complete Works of Sammao,<\/em>\u00a0she realized she learned that she wanted to study abroad. 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