{"id":240,"date":"2007-09-15T10:35:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T10:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2007-09-15T10:35:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T10:35:05","slug":"new-book-gift-of-a-blue-ball-path-of-a-fortune-teller-in-okinawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/research\/bibliography\/new-book-gift-of-a-blue-ball-path-of-a-fortune-teller-in-okinawa","title":{"rendered":"New book: Gift Of A Blue Ball: Path of a Fortune-teller in Okinawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"keynote_content\">Book written by J P Tuthill, Sr.&nbsp; Description from the iUniverse website:&nbsp; This is a haunting tale of murder and betrayal that  offers a rare glimpse into the fascinating culture of Okinawa. <\/div>\n<div id=\"bs_desc_title\">Book Description<\/div>\n<div id=\"bs_desc_content\">This is a historical fiction following the life of a  yuta (fortune teller) in Okinawa from childhood to her death at age ninety.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>Kameko witnesses the horrors of war as a twelve year old in the Battle of  Okinawa and survives into womanhood to locate the thief of the Royal Ryukyu  headdress and reclaim the national treasure. By using her gift of sight and  ability to communicate with the spiritual world, Kameko attempts to recover the  crown, a promise that she makes her mother&rsquo;s spirit. The reader will discover  the meaning behind the gift of the blue ball and the path of a yuta in Okinawa.<\/p>\n<p>A story of people interacting with ghosts demonstrating how fate is  influenced by both the physical and spiritual world. Although a fantasy, the  novel consists of a good deal of research on Okinawan culture and belief  systems, including ancestor worship. The result is both entertaining and  informative for the reader, using accurate descriptions of historical events as  the background for a ghostly and mysterious tale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iuniverse.com\/bookstore\/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-45930-7\">http:\/\/www.iuniverse.com\/bookstore\/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-45930-7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book written by J P Tuthill, Sr.&nbsp; Description from the iUniverse website:&nbsp; This is a haunting tale of murder and betrayal that offers a rare glimpse into the fascinating culture of Okinawa. Book Description This is a historical fiction following &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/research\/bibliography\/new-book-gift-of-a-blue-ball-path-of-a-fortune-teller-in-okinawa\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}