{"id":13878,"date":"2026-07-09T06:29:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=13878"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:29:06","slug":"13878","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2026\/07\/09\/13878\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:7274,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.mombooks.com\\\/book\\\/tsunami-kids&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260125000020\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.mombooks.com\\\/book\\\/tsunami-kids\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-27 17:37:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-02 23:09:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-06 05:28:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 12:10:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-13 20:35:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 16:27:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-22 06:40:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-25 10:38:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-30 13:49:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-04 12:40:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-07 21:00:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-07 21:00:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5670,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260130193214\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-05 05:30:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-19 16:52:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 04:03:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 16:13:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 05:37:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-10 17:58:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-19 09:37:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-24 06:18:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-29 11:24:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-09 06:29:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-09 06:29:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n<p>\ud83d\udcda Finished reading <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mombooks.com\/book\/tsunami-kids\/\" title=\"MOM Books: Tsunami Kids by Paul Forkan and Rob Forkan\">Tsunami Kids<\/a><\/em> by Paul Forkan and Rob Forkan. An incredible story of their unconventional upbringing, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami\" title=\"Wikipedia: 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami\">the tragic events of Boxing Day 2004<\/a>, and their subsequent business success. For me, the book is let down a little by the writing style and a lack of editing, which stopped it from being a totally gripping page-turner. But the story is the main thing that I came away with. It\u2019s hard to imagine what it\u2019s like to go through such a life-changing catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2026\/07\/09\/13878\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \"><div class='e-content p-summary'>\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Tsunami Kids by Paul Forkan and Rob Forkan. An incredible story of their unconventional upbringing, the tragic events of Boxing Day 2004, and their subsequent business success. For me, the book is let down a little by the writing style and a lack of editing, which stopped it from being a totally [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13863,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2026\/07\/07\/weeknotes-384-23-year-break\/","url_meta":{"origin":13878,"position":0},"title":"Weeknotes #384 \u2014 23-year break","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"7 July 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Lining up at the start of the JPMorganChase Corporate Challenge A fully-packed week with plenty going on. 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