{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Espresso Hour","title":"The Thinking Room: The Little Prince — What Adults Forgot","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/99b779c2\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":300,"description":"It sits on children's bookshelves. It has hand-drawn illustrations of a boy on a tiny planet and a fox in the grass. It takes less than two hours to read. And yet — The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry might be the most quietly devastating book ever written.\nIn today's The Thinking Room on Espresso Hour, we open up this deceptively simple story and look at what's really hiding beneath the surface. Because this was never truly a children's book. It's a meditation on the loneliness that creeps in when we grow up and stop asking the right questions. It's about love — not the romantic, cinematic kind, but the kind that costs you something. It's about loss, and how the things that matter most are invisible to the eye. It's about the fox, the rose, the well, and a grown-up world so consumed by numbers and seriousness that it has completely forgotten how to see.\nSaint-Exupéry wrote this in exile, separated from his homeland, in the final years before his death — and every page carries the weight of a man trying to hold on to something the world kept asking him to let go of.\nWe ask today: what did you understand about this book as a child — and what does it mean to you now? ☕\n== \nListen to #Pulse95Radio in the UAE by tuning in on your radio (95.00 FM) or online on our website: www.pulse95radio.com\nFollow us on Social. www.facebook.com/pulse95radio www.twitter.com/pulse95radio","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/mEw3HMeQyUBp8YAdq6LTNBM0vxcr-R9748BV-z3mOmo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82ZDBm/YzYyNTg3YWEyNTZk/MjE1ZTZmZjZlZThj/OTAwYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}