{"id":277,"date":"2014-04-05T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/04\/05\/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven-by-mitch-albom\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:17:19","slug":"the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven-by-mitch-albom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven-by-mitch-albom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a story on so many different levels. The physical construction  is not only divided between the &#8216;now&#8217; and the &#8216;then&#8217;, but also between  the earthly and the spiritual variants of &#8216;now&#8217; and &#8216;then&#8217;; it is also  split between five different people and their stories. At times, it can  feel like a collection of short, interesting anecdotes, but gradually  all the levels and all the stories merge, and the reader probably has  reason to say &#8211; the book still in his\/her hand &#8211; &#8220;Why, of course!&#8221;.  There is humour, tragedy and, at times, some very interesting  philosophical and spiritual insights. Another perspective on the  inevitable fact that we will all, at some time, &#8216;move on&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-LhXZCVPdOL4\/Uylbxv0VeKI\/AAAAAAAABN0\/Vr7wxls7zGc\/s1600\/th.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-LhXZCVPdOL4\/Uylbxv0VeKI\/AAAAAAAABN0\/Vr7wxls7zGc\/s1600\/th.jpeg\" height=\"320\" width=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Photo of<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitch_Albom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Mitch Albom<\/a> from mitchalbom.com<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a story on so many different levels. The physical construction is not only divided between the &#8216;now&#8217; and the &#8216;then&#8217;, but also between the earthly and the spiritual variants of &#8216;now&#8217; and &#8216;then&#8217;; it is also split between five different people and their stories. At times, it can feel like a collection of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"readmore-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven-by-mitch-albom\/\">+<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diane.eklund.abolins.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}