{"id":410,"date":"2010-01-04T21:36:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T05:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/?p=410"},"modified":"2010-01-04T21:36:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T05:36:01","slug":"the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My family loves to give and receive books for Christmas. Brian added a real gem to my book collection this year: William Kamkwamba&#8217;s memoir,\u00a0<em>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Kamkwamba tells magical stories of his childhood, his family and his life in Malawi. \u00a0For a young man he paints vivid and insightful pictures of the politics, cultural superstitions and extreme poverty and famine that engulfed his people.<\/p>\n<p>While I enjoyed the education of this book, what it really delivers is inspiration and hope. William dreams of bringing a better a life to his family and he makes it happen. He takes his natural gifts of curiousity and science exploration and turns them into something literally electrifying. William&#8217;s story is a great one. I feel fortunate that it was discovered and shared.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m encouraging Ben, who is 12, to read <em>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind<\/em>. \u00a0It&#8217;s message is so relevant for him. We should all take our &#8220;crazy&#8221; ideas and just give &#8217;em a try. Trust in ourselves and each other and great things can happen.<\/p>\n<p>Nice pick, Brian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My family loves to give and receive books for Christmas. Brian added a real gem to my book collection this year: William Kamkwamba&#8217;s memoir,\u00a0The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Kamkwamba tells magical stories of his childhood, his family and his life in Malawi. \u00a0For a young man he paints vivid and insightful pictures of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}