{"id":31692,"date":"2025-07-29T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31692\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:20:09","slug":"nprs-book-of-the-day-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31692\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8217;s Book of the Day : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a-marriage-at-sea_custom-fba07d87d027738fb56e007fd54f3b49122febdf.jpg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2025\/07\/28\/a-marriage-at-sea_custom-fba07d87d027738fb56e007fd54f3b49122febdf.jpg?s={width}&amp;c={quality}&amp;f={format}\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Riverhead Books\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <img data-original=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2025\/07\/28\/a-marriage-at-sea_custom-fba07d87d027738fb56e007fd54f3b49122febdf.jpg?s=2600&amp;c=100&amp;f=jpeg\" alt=\"Riverhead Books\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In 1972, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey set out from England to sail around the world. Partway through the voyage, a whale knocked a hole in their boat, leaving the couple stranded at sea. A Marriage at Sea, a new book by Sophie Elmhirst, chronicles how the Baileys struggled to survive for months as they awaited rescue. In today&#8217;s episode, the author speaks with NPR&#8217;s Mary Louise Kelly about the Baileys&#8217; story.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR&#8217;s book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org\/bookoftheday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1972, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey set out from England to sail around the world. Partway through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-31692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}